There is a very real brain component to addiction, and society up to now has for the most part has viewed it as failure of will.
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
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Why is it that the toast never pops up when you are standing beside the toaster?
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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex
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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
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'It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.'
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