"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."

Reed, Lou on drugs
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"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."

Housman, A. E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Hemingway, Ernest on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."

Havner, Vance on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."

Fielding, Henry on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts."

Dunne, Finley Peter on alcohol and alcoholism
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"One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough."

Behan, Brendan F. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically."

Streisand, Barbara on aids   

"Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable."

Heggs, Amanda on aids   

"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on aids   

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

Hale, Edward Everett on adversity
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living."

Kerr, Jean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I drink to forget I drink."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."

O'Rourke, P. J. on drugs
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"Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating."

Neville, Richard on drugs
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"The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it."

Lennon, John on drugs
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"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Lennon, John on drugs
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"Drugs are reality's legal loopholes."

Johnson, Jeremy P. on drugs
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"Of course drugs were fun."

Huston, Anjelica on drugs   

"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain."

Ginsberg, Allen on drugs
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"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."

Burroughs, William S. on drugs
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"I'm not so think as you drunk I am."

Squire, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!"

Sill, Edward Rowland on alcohol and alcoholism   

"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"

Shakespeare, William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."

Russell, Bertrand on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."

Martin, Dean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."

Frank, Anne on adversity
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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on adversity
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on abortion
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"The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control."

Ginsberg, Ruth Bader on abortion   

"Love, and do what you like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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