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«Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.»
«The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.»
«The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Life
| Keywords:
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«San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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city, for the most part, Francisco, inhabited, insane, remarkable, San, San Francisco, The San
«The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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«The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man, who cannot believe in anything else, are both insane»
«The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials»
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«The insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
insane, prisoner, root, The Prisoner of
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