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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and…
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes…
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
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The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
— Unknown Author
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
— Oliver Sacks
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…
— Billy Joel
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted…
— William James
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I really need a gin and tonic.
— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
— June Allyson
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