"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities . To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."

Greer, Germaine on drugs   

"Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?"

O'Rourke, P. J. on drugs
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"Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money."

Williams, Robin on drugs
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"Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams."

Kocher, Gerhard on drugs
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"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme on habit
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"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

Emmons, Nathaniel on habit
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"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on vanity
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep - pain that cannot forget; Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus on god
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"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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"Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body."

Freud, Sigmund on drugs
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"If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once."

Harris, Sidney J. on evil
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"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."

Havner, Vance on evil
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"The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil."

Proverb, Arabian on evil
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"Speak of the Devil and he appears."

Proverb, Italian on evil
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

Roosevelt, Theodore on evil
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"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."

Tozer, A. W. on evil
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on evil
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"In hell, the Devil is God."

Joshi, Kedar on evil
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"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."

Allen, Gracie on words
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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Bacharach, Burt on words
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"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

Chase, Stuart on words
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"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius on words
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"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."

Conrad, Joseph on words
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"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Coolidge, Calvin on words
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"Words of love, are works of love."

Alger, William R. on words
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on women
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"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."

Durrell, Lawrence on women
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"Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down."

Delillo, Don on women
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"I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth."

Cartland, Barbara on women
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"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

Carter, Angela on women
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"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

Brookner, Anita on women
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".. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on women   

"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."

Austen, Jane on women
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"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."

Johnson, Samuel on women   

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"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself."

Lawrence, D. H. on women   

"You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her."

Leverson, Ada on women
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"War is the trade of Kings."

Dryden, John on war