Drug Quotes - Page 40

• I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed

  Pamela Alexander

  Country, War, Marijuana

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• Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

  Larry Dossey

  Prayer, Patient, Procedures

  Larry Dossey (2011). “Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.

  Jim David

  Hippie, White, Snow

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Wine, Sobriety, Alcohol

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• Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

  John Kaplan

  Successful, Police, Liberty

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• One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Drink, Should

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

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• If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company.

  Robert Bazell

  Doubt, Physicians, Pills

  "The costly side effects of Nexium's ad blitz". www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2007.

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• You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

  Elissa Schappell

  Mother, Sleep, Choices

  Elissa Schappell (2012). “Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Addiction

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• The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
  I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

  Daniel Dumile

  Sex, Rap, Rocks

  "Song: Figure Of Speech (Album: Mr. Hood)". 1991.

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• Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
  Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Come Clean, Album: The Sun Rises in the East

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• Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Reality, People, Luck

  Laurence J. Peter (1979). “Peter's people”, W. Morrow

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• God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,
  Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.
  We try to cry, but still they all die,
  I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Cities, Hip Hop

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• Soul brother number 1+1
  Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from

  Ab-Soul

  Brother, Gun, Numbers

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• We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

  Jason Whitlock

  Attitude, Self, Hip Hop

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• Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.

  Arianna Huffington

  Air, Water, Car

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Horse, Fall

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• In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is that it's the furthest thing from the party. There's the alcoholism and drug abuse that come because you're looking for that elusive 'thing,' and you don't know what it is or where it is. But you've got the money and the connections, and the choices are not always the healthiest.

  Nathan East

  Party, Reality, Rocks

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• Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

  Dan Brown

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Reality, Want, Rich

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• Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.

  Peter Adamson

  Children, Reality, Rare Events

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• Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

  Eddie Griffin

  Hippie, Rocks, Guy

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• Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

  Milton Glaser

  Doctors, Design, Might

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• At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Retirement, Jobs, Children

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