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“I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.”

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Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.”

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Author:Ringo Starr

“But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.”

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Author:Armistead Maupin

“I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.”

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Author:James E. Faust

“My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.”

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Author:Columba Bush

“No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.”

“In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.”

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Author:Aimee Mann

“I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.”

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Author:Mick Miller

“We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.”

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Author:Izzy Stradlin

“People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.”

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Author:Corey Feldman

“It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.”

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Author:Aimee Mann

“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

“You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.”

“What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive.”

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Author:Robbin Crosby

“One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.”

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Author:Dale Archer

“A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.”

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Author:Eric Hodgins

“Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.”

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“In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.”

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Author:Damon Albarn

“Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.”

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Author:Richard M. Daley

“Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.”

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Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.”

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Author:Colin Farrell

“It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.”

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Author:Eminem

“It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“Do not let your fire go out.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.”

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“Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”

“One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.”

“Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.”

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