Side Effects Quotes

• There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

  Timothy Leary

  Inspiring, Memories, Long

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• Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

  Leon Kass

  Technology, People, Sides

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• Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth

  Roy Barnes

  Growth, Sides, Traffic

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• Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, God

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• Even if conventional medicine tells you that your condition is incurable or that your only option is to live a life dependent on drugs with troublesome side effects, there is hope for improving or reversing your condition.

  Leon Chaitow

  Medicine, Drug, Sides

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• Dying's a boring side effect.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dying, Sides, Boring

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves”, p.340, Scholastic UK

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• I, quite literally, woke up from a coma, from having tried to kill myself and it was very clear to me what my psychiatrist had been saying for years. The choice is not between a drug that has side effects or not, life is not ideal. Yes, your drug has side effects and yes if you don't take it you're going to die.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Choices, Drug

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?

  George Carlin

  Real, Causes, Sides

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sides, Sin, Stealing

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• I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

  Linus Torvalds

  Would Be, Microsoft, Sides

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• There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Marijuana, People, Drug

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• Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Wish, Sides

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.122, Beacon Press

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• The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

  Derek Sivers

  Educational, People, Important

  Interview with Nithya Rajaram, supportbee.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

  John Green

  Cancer, Book, Kids

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.49, Penguin

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• Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be intelligently explored with an open mind.

  Diane Ladd

  Kissing, Mind, Sides

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• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Progress, Hazards

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Maca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually stimulated... Kind of makes you feel a little like a superhero.

  Chris Kilham

  Sex, Crazy, Medicine

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• I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

  Dr. Dre

  Alcohol, Drug, Sides

  Song: Let's Get High

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• Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Philosophy, Sides, Effects

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Intelligence, Sides

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a single one had side effects as a result.

  Leon Chaitow

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

  Ted Malloch

  Goal, Principles, Sides

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, 2011.

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• As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

  Neal Stephenson

  Smart, People, Library

  Neal Stephenson (2012). “Some Remarks”, p.146, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

  David Lynch

  Light, Negativity, Darkness

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

  David Adam

  Creativity, Anchors, Sea

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