"Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan……" — Eric Hobsbawm
"Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market."
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- An addict never stops growing. Stupider. — William S. Burroughs
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- Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran
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- One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict. — George Carlin
- Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . .… — Eugene H. Peterson
- Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? — Clifford Stoll
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- I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never… — Kelly Osbourne