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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logi

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. – Cynthia Ozick

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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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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. – Aristotle

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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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

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But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system – we will have something without heart. – Lee Greenwood

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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way. – Anna Deavere Smith

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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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