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“Criminalization and interdiction have filled prisons and corrupted governments in country after country. However, increasingly potent drugs that can be synthetized in any basement make controlling access increasingly impossible. Legalization seems like a good idea but causes more addiction. Our strongest defense is likely to be education, but scare stories make kids want to try drugs. Every child should learn that drugs take over the brain and turn some people into miserable zombies and that we have no way to tell who will get addicted the fastest. They should also learn that the high fades as addiction takes over.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry

“Я оглядел пустой чемодан. На дне - Карл Маркс. На крышке - Бродский. А между ними - пропащая, бесценная жизнь.”
― Сергей Довлатов, The Suitcase

“Ugly as hell, but it was the sort of thing only women would do to their hair, and so it was provocative.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest

“So how does the massively complicated brain, with its eighty-six billion neurons, get built from such a small recipe book? The answer pivots on a clever strategy implemented by the genome: build incompletely and let world experience refine. Thus, for humans at birth, the brain is remarkably unfinished, and interaction with the world is necessary to complete it.”
― David Eagleman, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain