"Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories."
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"We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)"
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"There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart"
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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"It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things."
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"Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow."
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"It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are."
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"And mad ambition trumpeteth to all."
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"Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace."
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"As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious."
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"Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun."
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"The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
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"Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement."
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"There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked."
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"Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."
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"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical."
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"I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for."
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"I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me."
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"You would have to be half-mad to dream me up."
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"The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge."
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