“In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.”

— Linus Torvalds

Post to mlist.linux.kernel newsgroup, 2001-10-04, Torvalds, Linus, 2016-05-01 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mlist.linux.kernel/6Yj1ipr6nEc/dbhIEkhm4LgJ,
2000s, 2000-04

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Finnish-American software engineer and hacker 1969

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Simply Irresistible

“Porno is just like any other drug; after a while you start building up a tolerance to it.”

Richard Jeni (1957–2007) American comedian

A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me

“Listen,' Clover said. 'Don't worry about not being able to come back, I've lived both places, and trust me, you won't be getting the short end of the stick if you end up in Foo. I mean, candy alone…”

Obert Skye (1970) American writer

“If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel just like the kind a drug store would sell
When you reach the part where the heart aches come the hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take..”

Gordon Lightfoot (1938) Canadian singer-songwriter

If You Could Read My Mind, Track 8, Reprise
Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep--
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Pixie
Song lyrics
Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle

“Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.”

Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City

Source: Sex and the City

“In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: Essays in Love

“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“I’d like to see every young person in the world join the "Just Say No" to drugs club.”

Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States

On the "Just Say No to Drugs Week" (1986), as quoted in "JUST SAY NO" at The Ronald Reagan Foundation http://www.reaganfoundation.org/details_f.aspx?p=RR1008NRHC&tx=6
Context: Someone asked me if I wanted to make a New Year’s wish, and I said yes — and it was that I’d like to see every young person in the world join the "Just Say No" to drugs club. Well, just the fact that Congress has proclaimed "Just Say No Week" and in light of all the activities taking place, it seems that my wish is well on its way to coming true.

“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.”

Penelope Fitzgerald book Human Voices

Human Voices (1980)

“In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.”

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