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"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy." »Hesiod
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"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind." »William Shakespeare
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"Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder." »Paul Valery
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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." »Cyril Connolly
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"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company." »Jeremy Collier
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"alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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"alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards" »Siddharth Astir
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"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." »Arthur Koestler
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"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism." »Carl Jung
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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation." »Michel de Montaigne
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""When I was young my Dad told me that alcohol kills thousands of brain cells and he said, son . . . you're not the smartest kid in your class!"" »Tom Zegan
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"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do." »C. C. Colton
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"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved." »Confucius
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"The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect." »Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
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"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid." »George Orwell
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"Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it-not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it." »Nancy Davis Reagan
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"No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. alcohol is king" »Eliza Mother Stewart
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"alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers." »James F. Byrnes
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"Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." »Gilbert Chesterton
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"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will
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