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"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

"To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion."

"He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understand."

"I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method."

"Good so be would you if, duff plum of helping second A," said the Bursar. The table fell silent. "Did anyone understand that?" said Ridcully. The Bursar was not technically insane. He had passed through the rapids of insanity som time previously, and was now sculling around in some peaceful pool on the other side. He was quite often coherent, although not by normal human standards."

"When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."

"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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