Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"The secret of getting things done is to act!"
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Getting High
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"Never get high on your own supply."
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility."
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"People don't want other people to be people."
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"Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'"
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"I got high, and forgot I wasn't supposed to get high."
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"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
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"All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high."
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"Yesterday when we were getting high, you were invited. You woulda liked it."
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"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."
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"There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high"
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"It's not the having, it's the getting."
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"Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food."
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"When You're young, you get sad, and you get high."
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"The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived."
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"I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons."
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"If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes."
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"And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy."
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"It's amazing how low you go to get high."
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"Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!"
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"This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don’t drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing."
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"Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!"
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"The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high."
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