Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it."
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Sobriety
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Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."
Diogenes
Philosopher
"Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich."
Steve-O
Actor, Stunt Performer
"I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it"
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"Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality."
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"My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love."
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"Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much."
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"Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety."
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"Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority."
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"What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety."
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"I do not live in the world of sobriety."
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"Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little."
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"Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill."
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"Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity."
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"I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present."
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"I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?"
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"Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it."
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"It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking."
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