#alcohol

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life. ↗

— Penn Jillette

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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol. ↗

— Penn Jillette

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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol. ↗

— Peter Steele

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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. ↗