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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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"alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards" »Siddharth Astir
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"alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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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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"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center." »Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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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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"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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