"So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection."

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Source : "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

Johann Hari

#Opposites Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Sobriety Quotes

“I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.”
“She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.”
“'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.”
“Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. I know people think it's a disease... If you have a brain tumor, if you have cancer, that's a disease. To say that an addiction is a disease is not fair to the real diseases of the world.”
“Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.”
“As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.”
“It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.”

Source : "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.
“To vest a few fallible men â€” prosecutors, judges, jurors â€” with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.”

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