Beth Revis Quotes
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
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To remember everything is a form of madness.
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Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
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Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.
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Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.
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If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?