#diction

I have a writing addiction. ↗

— Prince

#i #writing

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#form #merely #most #obvious #our

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#apparatus #belief #effect #elicit #maintain

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumption #mass #model #organized #ownership

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#anything #before #comes #dictionary #hard

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#addictive #families #never #our #own

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #mass

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#addiction #almost #choice #everybody #existed

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#astonished #correct #experimental #frequently #i

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #life #me #mercy #my life