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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

  Drew Barrymore

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Hero, Men

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• Do not let your fire go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Recovery, Fire, Overcoming Addiction

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance

  Dale Carnegie

  Overcoming Addiction, Risk, Chance

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work - that isn't the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they're addicts. The problem is admitting it.

  Susan Cheever

  Thinking, Talking, Rehab

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

  Luke Davies

  Recovery, Overcoming Addiction, Alcohol

  "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.

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  I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Humor, Alcohol

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• Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ambition, Addiction, Drug

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Letting Go, Long, Rehab

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

  Michael Badnarik

  Humor, Marijuana Prohibition, Alcohol

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If God dropped acid, would he see people?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Dropping Acid

  "The Things I Wish They'd Told Me. As I Was Growing Up". Book by David Rankin, p. 97, 2010.

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• I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Recovery, Names

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• I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Funny, Marijuana

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• No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Health, Commitment

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

  Christopher Lasch

  Overcoming Addiction, Drug, Our Society

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• Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Flower, Recovery

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.276, Anchor

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• I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Birthday, Stress, Party

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• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.

  John Hardwick

  Weed, Marijuana, Addiction

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• Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

  Russell Brand

  Sexy, Recovery, Vegetarianism

  FaceBook post by Russell Brand from May 11, 2012

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• No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

  Barnaby Keeney

  Inspiration, Recovery, Successful

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