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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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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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John Updike
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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Leadership
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Sanity
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Look both ways before entering the insanity. – Terri Guillemets

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Sanity

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

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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Sanity

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

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Sanity

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Most sports only need one ball. Mine takes both. Skydive! – Author Unknown

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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Death by starvation is slow. – Mary Austin

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Death

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. – Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship