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"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
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"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."
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"At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock."
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"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
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"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town."
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"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
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"Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff."
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"With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we can remain stagnated in an infantile mental state. Without introspection, we foreclose ourselves from gaining the insight that allows us to navigate adulthood's ceaseless demands."
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"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care."
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"I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through."
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"I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie."
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"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."
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"Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction."
Addiction
"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."
Science
"Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution."
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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."
Defeat
"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not."
Physics
"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."
Life
"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."
Experience
"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
Right
"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."
Fact
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