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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a grea

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. – William Ellery Channing

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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then its you. – Rita Mae Brown

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Sanity is madness put to good uses. – George Santayana, Little Essays

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. – George Bernard Shaw

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. – Abraham Lincoln

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I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. – Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam

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