"I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

George Jung

#Marijuana Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
“Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.”
“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”
“Dogs are forever in the push up postion.”
“When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.”
“Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.”

Source : Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey (2013). “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization”, p.38, Harvard Business Press
“You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own ***** problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.”

Source : "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.
“I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.”

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