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Quote by Edward Dahlberg
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. – Edward Dahlberg

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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. – Edward Dahlberg

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Machines, Machinery
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Edward Dahlberg
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

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Selfishness
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. – Edward Dahlberg

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Cats
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Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Madness

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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Madness

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them. – Ezra Pound

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Madness

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. – Hermann Broch

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Madness

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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. – Thomas Jefferson

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. – Stephen Hawking

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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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