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• Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

  Mark Levin

  Principles, Politics, Tyranny

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Philosophy, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.

  Karen Walker

  Yoga, Names, Apples

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• If I've had a bad day, if I'm feeling stressed out, if I'm feeling overwhelmed - it takes it all away. It's my antidote for everything. If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

  Kelly Ripa

  Bad Day, Feel Better, Emotional

  "Kelly Ripa: Fab at 40". Interview with David A. Keeps, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 6, 2010.

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  People, Important, Negative

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• Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and act on. I can tell you this: it will make you feel very vulnerable. The only antidote is to believe you are after a worthwhile change and that you are likely to be the right one to lead this particular charge.

  Charlotte Beers

  Believe, Passion, Caring

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.239, Vanguard Press

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• To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

  Jason Silva

  Despair, Inspired, Existential

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Patience, Powerful

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• Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Despair, Enlightenment

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 08, 2014

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• We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Night, Hair, Long

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• The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Grief, Fall

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.306

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• Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Vices, Poison

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.321

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• When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Real, Sacrifice, Blood

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• The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Work, Thinking, Envy

  Bonnie Friedman (2014). “Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

  Joseph Addison

  Stupid, People, Stupid People

  "The Drummer". Play by Joseph Addison, 1716.

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• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Exercise, Men

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• The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Compassion, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.85, Penguin

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• In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

  Wesley Morris

  Apples, People, Use

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• Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.

  B. J. Palmer

  Men, World, Causes

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• Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.

  Frank Capra

  Play, Numbers, Boss

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

  Erwin Rommel

  Ideas, Done, Impossible

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