Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?
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Related Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madne... JON RONSON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple... CRAIG GROESCHEL Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ROALD DAHL You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY What’s good for individual could be bad for society but what’s good for society that will be goo... ZAMAN ALI I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa... ERIK GRIFFIN You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. SALLY GARDNER What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness... SUNDAY ADELAJA 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN Was this what he believed, what he had always believed when I talked on and on about goodness? Was h... ANNE RICE Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I'm not sure if I helped or hurt her. The important thing is just that I had an impact. I don't care... CONAN O'BRIEN If you leave us confused about whether or not this is a crime or not, the impact on society is far g... LINDSEY GRAHAM We'll see what impact, if anything, the hurricane had on them, and it may be a harbinger. DAVID JOY VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?" Gi... JOHN FLANAGAN If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it. DEYTH BANGER I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost... ALEXANDER AHNDORIL We could have been the greatest love story ever told. If only you'd stayed in character. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a p... ROBYN SCHNEIDER I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and sudde... FELISBERTO HERNáNDEZ You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society, and I don... STEPHEN BALDWIN I always said if I could figure out a way to grow Kleenex and toilet paper on trees, we could pull t... JOEL SALATIN I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is l... MAYA ANGELOU To the parents of children with Autism: Do not be concerned if your child does not fit into society ... JEFF K. HUMPHREY Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is. 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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Life is what you make of it. You have to decide what you want in life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed. MADONNA uch is the lrony and the Cruel Facts:
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JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po... JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house... JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl... JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s... JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people. JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,... JON SCIESZKA Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e... JON MEACHAM Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the... JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once. JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.... JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e... JON MEACHAM Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn... JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ... JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their... JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els... JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance. JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa... JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ... JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d... JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje... JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood... JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ... JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ... JON FOREMAN I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr... JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ... JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. JON LOVITZ The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ... JON ORINGER Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ