"Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more."
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"While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail."
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"The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses."
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"His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London."
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"I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."
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"I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction."
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"Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial."
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"We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage."
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"It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?"
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"Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday."
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"I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own lifestyle, from what was going on in the world. After I recovered I was amazed at certain people who had died. I hadn't noticed that they had gone. Not friends ... I'm talking about public figures who had passed away."
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"Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity."
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"This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money."
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"I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction."
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"I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good."
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"This is the 21st century, we are a highly evolved race, our capabilities are so great compared to what we are doing. We have been lulled into addiction and everything is built around it and you have to break out of it and think outside of the box."
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"It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something"
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"Shopping and buying and getting and having comprise the Great American Addiction. No one is immune. When the underclass riots in this country they don't kill policemen and politicians, they steal merchandise. How embarrassing."
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"There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization."
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"I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented."
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