"Insanity is a lack of proportion."

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Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.62, Atlantic Monthly Press

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Insanity Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.”
“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.224, Transaction Publishers
“Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.”
“The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.”

Source : "Spurs' fortitude fueled title run" by J.A. Adande, www.espn.com. November 19, 2014.
“Itâ€™s better to think of my life like thatâ€” part miracle, part madness. Itâ€™s better if I accept that I canâ€™t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.”
“A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.”
“Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.”
“People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.”

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