"...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking."
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"There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more."
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"We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity."
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"Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit."
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"The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower."
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"The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul."
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"Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die."
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"The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance."
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"The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it."
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"Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith."
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"For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme."
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"Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet."
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"I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances."
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"Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss."
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"Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms."
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"We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love"
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"Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery."
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"All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life."
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"[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body."
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"The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances."
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