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addiction
«In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy»
Author: Ivan Illich
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addiction, addictions, consumer, Consumer Society, envy, inevitably, kinds, prisoners, slaves, society, The Prisoner of
«Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name... The French city... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.»
Author: James Fenton
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addicted, addiction, division, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addicts, heroin, heroin addict, heroin addiction, humiliation, mutilation, mutilations, old country, phase, prostitution, represented, Saigon, The Americans, The Division, the French
«There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.»
«It's the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon.»
Author: Patricia Linden
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abandon, addiction, afternoons, blissful, chilly, hearth, hearths, nights, Saturday, The National, warmth
«The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
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Sports
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addiction, arrested, arrested development, Marks
«I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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addiction, addictions, bath, fibrous, flesh, grey, heroin, heroin addiction, needle, removed, The Bath, wooden
«I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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addiction, eczema, hides, imply, sheer, silk, underwear, well aware
«I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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addiction, agent, creed, degradation, free agent, Free agents, Go To Heaven, moral philosophy, party man, Party of, party politics, party system, submitted