Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
JOSEPH HELLER
Insanity is contagious.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Insanity is contagious.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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