"Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods."

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Source : "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, Volume 6, 1983.

Virgil Miller Newton

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“It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.”
“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.”
“There were illegal poets like Muzaffar al-Nawab, this is the thing - Muzaffar was widely known and he didn't really have books. He would deliver these readings on cassette tape. Go on YouTube and listen to him. He's like a preacher. He's a really interesting figure in modern Iraqi life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.”
“Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.”
“Go out into the world, find work that you love, learn from your mistakes, and work hard to make a difference.”
“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan
“I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.”

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