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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#alcoholics #country #crime #health #health problem

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#glimpses #human #human strength #me #physician

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#british #culture #forward #go #going

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#dreadful #end #eyes #frailties #i

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#cannot #compare #dominion #emperors #even

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. ↗

— Graham Nash

#became #began #beings #better #better way

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#characteristic #disability #entirely #good #health

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#art #criticism #darkness #discernible #enveloping