"Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit."

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Source : Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

Osamu Dazai

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“I understand, probably more than anyone, what a threat Iraq was and the people that threatened Iraq was. I was beneath the towers on September 11th when they fell. And I -- again, I just -- I want to thank the President for the honor in allowing me to go there, because I lost 23 people. I wear this -- this memorial band for the 23 I lost.”

Source : "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Soledad O'brien, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.
“You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.”
“I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.”
“I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.”
“To shine is better than to reflect.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.220, Spectra
“Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back”
“I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.”

Source : "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.
“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.”

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