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• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Drinking, Two

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• Books are a narcotic.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Health

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• The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

  Sigmund Freud

  May, Consolation, Effects

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

  Rex Murphy

  Hollywood, Literature, Want

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• The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.

  Michael Parenti

  Jobs, Defense, Four

  Michael Parenti (1995). “Against Empire”, p.166, City Lights Books

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• None these organizations [terrorists] could continue operating without the narcotics networks, human-trafficking and oil smuggling. Addressing it requires a truly creative global response similar to that used to stand up against Germany's aggression in World War II.

  Ashraf Ghani

  War, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Literature, Strategy

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• Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
  our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy --
  comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
  are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.

  Joel Miller

  Simple, Strings Attached, Drug

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• Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Strong, Blow, Moral

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund (1933). “Unpublished letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: including certain letters republished from original sources”

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• Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

  Rolf Potts

  Looks, Maps, Possibility

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

  Bela Lugosi

  Years

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• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

  William Alcott

  Bed, Cabbage, Used

  William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191

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• THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

  James Lee Burke

  Commitment, Use, Montana

  James Lee Burke (2014). “Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

  Pietro Mascagni

  Music, Jazz, Modern

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• In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

  Robert Mueller

  Years, Law, Numbers

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• Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

  Cesar Aira

  Flower, Moon, Bird

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• The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.

  Beverley Nichols

  Soul, Body, Sake

  Beverley Nichols (1953). “Merry Hall”

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• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Attitude, Reality, Emotional

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• The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Timothy Leary

  Tree, Jehovah, Fruit

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• Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

  Russell Baker

  Determined, Classic, Synonym

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• Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the soul feel good to hear out angry young black men, can be transmuted into changing the world is narcotic but nonsensical. Wherever hiphop is ever "going," we can be sure it will not be in a constructive direction, anymore than fashions in the color of cars. And it shouldn't "concern" us in the least.

  John H. McWhorter

  Fashion, Moving, Men

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• Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

  Gerald Early

  Taken, Winning, Style

  Gerald Lyn Early (1994). “The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture”

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• By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

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• I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Drinking, Beer, Addiction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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