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• Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

  Steven Berkoff

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Writing

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• I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mirrors, Hairspray, Lipstick

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• The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

  Bill Vaughan

  Strong, Greed, Contentment

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• There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

  Garson Kanin

  Stress, Self, Expression

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• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiring, Tired, Helping Others

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Children, Years

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Boredom

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• Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

  Aimee Mann

  Thinking, Feelings, Albums

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• Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

  James Forrestal

  Russia, Accomplishment, Poison

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• Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

  Mario Batali

  Relax, Michigan, Manhattan

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• There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doubt, Atheism, Next

  "Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell". 1971.

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• Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.

  Michelle Malkin

  Children, Kids, Years

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• A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Stress, Golf, Ideals

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• What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Responsibility, Space

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• Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Girl, Country, Looks

  "Queen Rania: The 21st-Century Queen" by Jackie Spinner, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Errors, Ego

  ActuSF Interview, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

  Chiranjeevi

  Powerful, Growth, Tourism

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• Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Medical

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

  David Brin

  Errors, Accountability, Criticism

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• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• The patient must minister to himself

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Patient, Ministers

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Vices, Should

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

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• Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Spiritual, Mean, America

  "We Need Wilderness". National Parks Magazine, January - March 1946.

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• Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Atheism, Liberty, Criticism

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

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