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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

- Barbara Jordan

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

- Thomas Szasz

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

- Timothy Leary

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

- Peter Medawar

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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

- Omar N. Bradley

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

- George Bernard Shaw

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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

- Paul Sweeney

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

- Jacques Barzun

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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

- Charles Kuralt

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