"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand."
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"Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars."
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"I have a plan-to go mad."
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"Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means."
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"If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already."
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"One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.""
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"Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different."
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"Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad."
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"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!"
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"Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as those of the Americans or of the Bolsheviks. Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely. The likeness of man, once a high ideal, is in process of becoming a machine-made article. It is for madmen like us, perhaps, to ennoble it again."
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"Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth."
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"Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing."
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"How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.""
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"Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded."
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"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
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"A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad."
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"The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself."
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"Every house is a mad-house at some time or another."
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"This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness."
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