Antidote Quotes

• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Athlete, Golf, Worry

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• Action is the antidote to despair.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Joan Baez 75th Birthday Concert: Four Days Before The Iowa Voting, A Double Shot Of Espresso" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

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• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Strength, Depression, Pain

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

  Adam Smith

  Science, Flames, Enthusiasm

  The Wealth of Nations Bk V, Ch. 1

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• Faith is the antidote for fear.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual

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• The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dwelling, Sorrow, Busy

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• Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote Whatever it is that you’re afraid of, go after it.

  Travis Kalanick

  Hustle, Disease

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• The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.

  Camille Paglia

  Magic

  "Break, Blow, Burn". Book by Camille Paglia, 2005.

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• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  Patch Adams

  Patch Adams (1998). “Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

  Gail Godwin

  Long, Forward Motion, Found

  Gail Godwin (1985). “The finishing school”, Viking Pr

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• Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

  Erwin Rommel

  Ideas, Danger, Fixed

  "The Rommel Papers". Book edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart. Chapter 11: "The Initiative Passes," p. 244, 1953.

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Boss, Mind

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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• Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Ideas, Age, Faces

  "The Moral Animal" by Jonathan Sacks, www.nytimes.com. December 23, 2012.

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• Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

  Richard Louv

  Nature

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.142, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

  Michael Palin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poison, Proud, Virtue

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Knowledge is the antidote to fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tattoo, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

  Joseph Addison

  Destiny, Life And Death, Bane

  Henry Jones, Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison, William Congreve (1776). “The Earl of Essex, a Tragedy”

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• Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Criticism, Delusion, Indispensable

  "The Loyalty of Free Men". Book by Alan Barth, 1951.

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• The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.

  Isidore of Seville

  Health, Names, Medicine

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• That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Jobs, Blood

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Struggle, Simple, Two

  "Celebrating Family and Medical Leave Act With Family Values" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

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