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• Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence...
• Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence .
  .. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence
  not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselve...
• The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.
• He has a high degree of idealism, a high degree of stubbornness, and an even higher degree of inability to distiniguish between the two.
  Shlomi Fish...
• Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie
  o be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity....
• The intellectual benefits of attending a university or college are vastly overrated
  most people could learn more by studying and reading on their own for four years than by pursuing a university or college degree....