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"At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines."
"Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions."
"After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill."
"I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?"
"What an incredible drug fear is."
"I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way."
"The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along."
"Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century."
"A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less."
"I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it."
"If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else."
"We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal."
"Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today."
"Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution."
"Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink."
"It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs."
"There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs."
"You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me."
"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."
"It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug."
