"I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity."
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"It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity."
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"Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers"
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"Insanity Max 30 is the hardest workout I've ever taught."
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"You have to dig SEEEEERIOUSLY deep in Insanity MAX:30!"
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"In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity."
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"The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health."
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""A minority of one"... the definition of insanity."
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"Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust."
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"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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"I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat."
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"Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital."
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"There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane."
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"No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule."
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"But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers."
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"We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla."
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"John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity."
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"You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down."
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"One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity."
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"Life. Consider the alternative."
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