"Not why the addiction, but why the pain."

-- Gabor Mate

#Pain Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a strong writing staff, they rely on you just as much as you rely on them. They look to me or the other actors to help inspire them to take the character in interesting directions.”
“Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?”

Source : Alfréd Rényi (1984). “A diary on information theory”
“Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.”
“Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.”
“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.”

Source : Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.
“Come away; poverty's catching.”
“I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.
“If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.”

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