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"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."

"It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy."

"There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief."

"I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics."

"Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all."

"Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components - anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain - wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain."

"How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that 'once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict' and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?"
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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."

"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets."

"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win."

"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
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