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I did what I did because of drugs. They controlled my life.


Joseph Skipper

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JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life a...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through ...
JOSEPH STOWELL For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each ...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken...
JOSEPH ROUX He is great enough that is his own master.
JOSEPH HALL Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX