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• Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.

  John Green

  Cancer, Thinking, Tears

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• Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Reading, Sleep

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• I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

  William P. Young

  Punishment, People, Joy

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Our Society, Manipulation

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.

  Og Mandino

  Love Is, Giving, Miracle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?”, p.232, Bantam

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• The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, Woe, Causes

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.33, City Lights Books

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• I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

  David Sheff

  Causes, I Can

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• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fear, Blessing, Men

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• In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, Long, Information

  "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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• The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

  Alfred de Musset

  Art, Blood, Water

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

  Anne Frank

  Inspiring, Self, Laughing

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

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• Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.

  John Maeda

  Art, Believe, Enjoy Life

  "VOICES; John Maeda", www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2003.

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• Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Deafness, Tales

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

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• exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Problem

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• As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Lying, Love Is, Mind

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Feb 14, 2016

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• No one can be the total cure for another person.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Persons

  Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.239, SUNY Press

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• Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

  Patrick Ness

  Healing, Half, Belief

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• I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Self, House

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• Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Headache, Condom

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.672, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?

  Marissa Meyer

  Ruins, Cost, Imagine

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• As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Kids, Dark

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.257, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

  Edward Abbey

  Sweet, Democracy, Anarchism

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• Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

  Naomi Novik

  Giving Up, Heart, Responsibility

  Naomi Novik (2006). “His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire”, p.299, Del Rey

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• A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Doctors, People

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.9, Melville House

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