Steven Wright

The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

American Comedian

Nicole Polizzi

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.

American Celebrity

George Osborne

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

British Politician

Nikola Tesla

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Inventor

Alice Walker

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

American Author

Robert A. Heinlein

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

American Writer

Saul Bellow

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

American Novelist

J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

British Author

Stuart Chase

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Akira Kurosawa

Japanese Director

Use 'sane' to describe decisions or actions reflecting clear and rational thinking.

Good Judgment

'Sane' implies mental healthiness, opposite to insanity.

Mental Well-being

Sometimes, 'sane' is used sarcastically to mean the opposite, especially when expectations are defied.

Sarcasm Caution

'Sane' emphasizes practicality and logic in everyday situations.

Practical Reason

While often describing a person, 'sane' can refer to policies, actions, or ideas as well.

Not Just for People

Use 'sane' for reasonable methods or approaches in tangible scenarios, not abstract theories.

Real-World Contexts

'Sane' in legal terms is a formal assessment of a person's mental capacity to understand and execute decisions.

Legal Specificity

Legally 'sane' doesn't diagnose a mental condition but assesses the ability to be responsible for actions.

Not a Diagnosis

'Sane' usually arises in legal settings when discussing a person's competency during a trial.

Courtroom Context

 I've been looking over the last year for like models for how to do that I've been sort of looking across time and I've been trying to find like other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people sort of manage the inherent emotional risks

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 to sniff out explosives?' When I read my medical notes, I saw they'd 'Believes bees can sniff out explosives.'" He said, "You know, they're always looking out for nonverbal clues to my mental state. But how do you sit in a sane way? How do you cross your legs in a sane way?

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 And, as I've been looking, over the last year, for models for how to do that, I've been sort of looking across time, and I've been trying to find other societies to see if they might have had better and saner ideas than we have about how to help creative people

 and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works. The problem is that war does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth. Any sane person hates war, hates the idea of war,

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 Keep your eyes lifted and your head turning. The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. To understand and use it sanely,

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 explosives whenever at my medical notes I saw they'd written believes bees can sniff out explosives he said you know they're always looking out for non-verbal clues to my mental state but how do you sit in a sane way

 and that he did so with a force that would shatter his sense of himself and his world and transform this otherwise modest man into a radical advocate for social and economic justice. Fear was the only sane response,

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 sort of obsessing over spending all this time to the point of to the edge of sanity that doesn't that doesn't sound super wise isn't that like your your your time your your completely sane centered

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 And I made a decision. I don't think I changed that much. I think I'm the same sane person. I said what I want to say and, for the most part, I do what I want to do.

John Lewis and Bryan...

 I don't know anybody who's fully sane who isn't afraid fear is an essential component to life it keeps you on your guard and in the truth philosophical way

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