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addiction
«A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Addiction,
Money
| Keywords:
addiction, moderate
«Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.»
«For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.»
Author: Peter McWilliams
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, addictive, big time, disease, emotions, negative, the Big, The Body, The Others, The Wings, wings
«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.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, alcoholics, drug, drug addiction, health problem, jail, jailed, jails, nonviolent, send, treated, users
«Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.»
Author: Chris Rock
| Keywords:
addiction, carbonation, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, connection, council, junkie, junkies, presidential, soda, The National
«I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Addiction,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
addict, addiction, addictions, addicts, admire, at random, cause of death, disaster, disease, For some, keep down, likely, random, sudden, sudden death, total
«If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
addict, addiction, cured, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, haunts, House of the Dead, intangible, intangibles, organism, recasting, smoking, There exists
«All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, addictive, damnation, Point of, tends, tends to, terminal, terminals, terminal point, The Terminal
«Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Addiction
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, alcohol, idealism, morphine, narcotic, narcotics