"The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad."
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"Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings."
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"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits."
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"If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles."
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"For a while you get mad, then you get over it."
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"If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad."
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"I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!"
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"Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman."
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"Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad."
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"While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing."
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"Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad."
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"I didnt know I was mad about anything. I guess if the New York Times says I am, I must be."
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"Certitude drives people mad."
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"We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!"
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"Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."
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"Men went mad and were rewarded with medals."
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"... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them."
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation."
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"The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?"
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"It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason"
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