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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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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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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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Driving
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Water
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. – Aristotle

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Sanity

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sanity

If we werent all crazy, we would go insane. – Jimmy Buffett

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Sanity

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. – R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

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Sanity

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I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. – Margi Clark

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. – Oscar Wilde

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Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings. – Curt Weldon

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