All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.
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It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
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A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.
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Titus 2:3:
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
(NIV)
Bid the older women similarly to be reverent and devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service, not slanderers or slaves to drink. They are to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble
(AMP)
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
(KJV)
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
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I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction
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America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.
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We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem.
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake.
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Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern.
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