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“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

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Author:David Hume

“Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.”

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Author:Charles Bukowski

“For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.”

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Book:As You Like it: A Comedy

Source: As You Like it: A Comedy

“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.”