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There is always some madness in love

  There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. - Edgard Varese You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein (attributed) There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca If you don't risk anything you risk even more. - Erica Jong Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy READ MORE

We are an impossibility

  We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell READ MORE

What's money?

  Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. --Bob Dylan Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. --Rita Mae Brown Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. --George S. Patton Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. --Francis Quarles For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. --Virginia Woolf I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. --Joseph Conrad A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Edith Sitwell What you do speaks so loud that I can...