"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
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"An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work."
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"I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness."
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"I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't."
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore."
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"I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine."
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"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap."
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"You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day."
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"Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country."
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"Legalizing marijuana would make a lot of sense, I don't think there's a single case of marijuana overdose on record and tens of millions of users. It's much less dangerous than alcohol, for example."
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"I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History."
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"It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing."
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"Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!"
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"I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms."
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"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)"
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"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars."
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"Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around."
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"I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19."
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"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee."
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