1. "MEET THE BOOGER EATER"
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James Patterson, Middle School: How I Survived Bullies
2. "And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultraviolet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life. For millions of kilometers around extended great veils of gas and dust, fluorescing in countless colors as the blasts of ultraviolet tore through them. It was a star against which Earth’s pale sun would have been as feeble as a glowworm at noon."
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Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
3. "Mad! Quite mad!' said Stalky to the visitors, as one exhibiting strange beasts. 'Beetle reads an ass called Brownin', and M'Turk reads an ass called Ruskin; and-' 'Ruskin isn't an ass,' said M'Turk. 'He's almost as good as the Opium-Eater. He says we're "children of noble races, trained by surrounding art." That means me, and the way I decorated the study when you two badgers would have stuck up brackets and Christmas cards. Child of a noble race, trained by surrounding art, stop reading or I'll shove a pilchard down your neck!"
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Rudyard Kipling, The Complete Stalky and Co.
4. "Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals"
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Quote by Edmund Wilson
5. "Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom."
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Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
6. "Religion is opium for the masses"
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Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
7. "Optimism is the opium of the people."
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Milan Kundera, The Joke
8. "Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged."
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Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
9. "Religion is the opium of the poor"
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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
10. "I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater."
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Quote by Amy Tan