Or it can take a seriously unbalanced person and give them one more way to go off the rails.

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Or will it go off the rails, like the notorious 1968 merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad?

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It is not unknown for good scientists to go off the rails at the end of their careers, and Fred Hoyle did so in spectacular style.

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Yet success caused Mailer to go off the rails.

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"As I went through my teenage years, the seriousness of what I had been subjected to hit me more and more and I began to go off the rails, particularly as I had no support from my family, " the man said.

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While Limbaugh has always been one to court controversy, it is worth wondering what caused him to go so off the rails in the first place.

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