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Liz McFie
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi
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Earth has now, collectively, gone mad. I think I mean that literally. - Eric Weinstein
Narrator: And just in the nick of time.
There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty. Everything happening is exactly what I predicted.
 
PS. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Vanity, thy name is vampire.

PS. - Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
“I’m not going to sit here and listen to you tell me that it’s okay for August to hit her because she’s his wife. Or that it’s not his fault because he’s insane. If he’s insane, that’s all the more reason she should stay away.”

PS. - Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

PS. - Rousseau Jean-Jacques
It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.

PS. - The Iron Heel
What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

PS. - Stephen King, The Shining
Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Ancient Greek means something like ‘uninhibited thought’, ‘free speech’, or ‘full expression’. getpocket.com/explore/item...
The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look | Aeon Ideas
From Diogenes to Jane Goodall, the hypersane seem mad to the mainstream but perhaps they see more deeply than the sane
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[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

PS. - W. Somerset Maugham
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

PS. - Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

PS. - Helen Keller
We are all okay with our choices until a heavy consequence is attached to them. - Richelle E. Goodrich
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. - Philip K. Dick
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

PS. - mayhaps Winston S. Churchill
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

PS. - George Orwell, 1984
"The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry."

PS. - Paulo Freire