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Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

Margaret Millar

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Margaret Millar
Age: 79 †
Born: 1915
Born: February 5
Died: 1994
Died: March 26
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