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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl and Aniela Jaffé. Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken [Memories, Dreams, Reflections], translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Exlibris, 1962.

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Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Bill Wilson

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Wilson, Bill. Alcoholics Anoymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. Works Publishing Co., 1939, ch. 5.

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