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I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'
N. Chandrababu Naidu
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N. Chandrababu Naidu
Indian
Politician
Born:
Apr 20
,
1950
Topics
Prohibition
,
Admit
,
Impractical
,
Ashamed
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Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers
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Learning
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Giving
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Earth
Would
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Constitutional Amendment
Colleges
Instead
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
Food
Water
Nothing
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Prohibition
Once
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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Madness
Value
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Prohibition
Face Value
Allegation
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Takes
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Done
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Even
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Harm
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Bill Bryson
Government
Time
Closed
Down
Alcohol
Criminal
Prohibition
Criminals
States
Stroke
Pretty
More
Remarkable
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Industry
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Years
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American
Just
American Government
Fifth
Production
United
United States
Largest
Thing
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
Vikram Patel
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People
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Addiction
Prohibition
Pleasure
Moral
Give
Health Problem
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Proven
Substances
Which
Many
Strategies
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every
Beneath
Prohibition
Fact
Superstition
Very
Illness
Conscious
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
Rhys Ifans
Failure
You
Culture
Think
Prohibition
Invariably
Look
Idiotic
Been
Any
Just
Substance
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
Vicente Fox
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
Vikram Patel
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Ground
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