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“Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.”
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“I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.”
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“I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”
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“The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.”
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“It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.”
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“If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.”
Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS
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“I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look,”
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“Only the insane equate pain with success.”
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“Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry." "Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.”
Source : Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.310, Simon and Schuster
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“When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.”
