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• The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Grieving, Opposites, Mind

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• The only thing I'm addicted to right now is winning.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Warlocks, Right Now

  "Charlie Sheen Sets His Sights on Sox". Boston Dirt Dogs Interview, bostondirtdogs.boston.com. March 8, 2011.

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• We tend to get what we expect.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Clever, Positive Thinking, Expectations

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• The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Desire

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.792, Hamilton Books

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• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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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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• The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational Life, Love Life, Love Is

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• How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Kindness, Thinking

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• Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

  Francis Kelley

  Men, Belief, Action

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• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Charlie Sheen

  Recovery, Dark, Play

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

  Brooke Shields

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981

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• Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

  Arlen Specter

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• Romantic love is an addiction.

  Helen Fisher

  Love, Happiness, Romantic Love

  "The science of love and happiness". Interview with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. June 30, 2013.

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• People fail forward to success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiration, People, Failing

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.125, John Wiley & Sons

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• Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Motivational, Lying, Infinite

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• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Family, Crazy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  Orson Welles

  Art, Interviews, Form

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• Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

  Thomas Szasz

  Political, Anorexia, Body

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• We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Recovery, Moments, Lifetime

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Fear And Loathing, Depth

  "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream".

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• Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.

  Cherie Currie

  Fun, Sleep, Drug

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• Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

  Allan Bloom

  This Generation, Generations, Generation Gap

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Ownership, Mass Consumption, Organized

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• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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