"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

Thompson, Hunter S. on advice
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"Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane."

Unknown, Source on insanity
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"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."

French, Marilyn on love
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on insanity
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."

Landesberg, Steve on honesty
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"It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Wilde, Oscar on charm
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"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

Sculley, John on risk
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems."

Unknown, Source on problems
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"Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people."

Gibson, Tobias S. on ideas
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"If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not."

Ching Ning Chu on fear
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insanity
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on insanity
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"The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely."

Cooley, Charles Horton on sex
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"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."

Gourmont, Remy De on sex   

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century."

Unknown, Source on seduction
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"Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice."

Johnson, Samuel on revenge
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"What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?"

Roethke, Theodore on insanity
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on power
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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on fear
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"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

Poe, Edgar Allan on slander
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on insanity
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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

O'Rourke, P. J. on drugs
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."

Ellison, Harlan on stupidity
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance."

Flaherty, Edward on love
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"You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered."

Paglia, Camille on sex
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"I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane."

Jennings, Waylon on insanity
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