Dosage Quotes

• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  Paracelsus

  Poison, Remedy

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• The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loss, Winning, Night

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.16, Macmillan

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• The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

  Laura Huxley

  Medicine, Differences, Poison

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

  Paracelsus

  Health, Medicine, Drug

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• There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved

  Peter L. Berger

  Religious, Vocabulary, Community

  Peter L. Berger (1961). “The noise of solemn assemblies: Christian commitment and the religious establishment in America”

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• Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

  Paracelsus

  Wine, Medicine, Poison

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• I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out, down to the fact that most medical studies are done on men, not women, so most dosages are planned for men, not women, and on and on. And more than that, women's pain is gauged differently and their complaints are received differently. And the idea that there's a place where you can go where everything is geared toward you, as a woman, is great. But it's a shame that we need to find places that are "safe" when the world, the whole world, should be a safe place.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Pain, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Rip, Humor

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• Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.

  Linus Pauling

  Drug, Training, Vitamins

  Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”

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• Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

  Rachel Caine

  Stress, Sleep, Past

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.73, Penguin

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• When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.

  Warren Farrell

  Caring, Europe, Fda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  Warren Buffett

  Medicine, Economic, Barrels

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Suicide, Gun, Drug

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Adamson feels that drug developers are unreasonably concerned about rare events. The reality is children tolerate phase I therapy new agents being tested to find the best dosage and possible side-effects as well as or better than adults, ... Once the initial studies are done that is, phase I trials in adults study should begin in children.

  Peter Adamson

  Children, Reality, Rare Events

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• The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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• "On unanticipated problems: There's been "a dramatic increase in edibles." And "no one had ever worried about dosage sizes. The original edibles that came out, once you took the packaging off there was nothing to show it was any different than candy."

  John Hickenlooper

  Marijuana, Different, Packaging

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• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.

  William Styron

  Morning, Fun, Sleep

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• I never use the word "drug" without defining it. I define it exactly the way the DEA defines it, "a chemical compound capable of reproduction in standardized dosages." I explain that marijuana is a plant with many drugs in it, just like any other plant.

  Carl E. Olson

  War, Marijuana, Drug

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• Six patients with advanced cancer were treated with amygdalin at dosages similar to those employed by Laetrile practitioners....intravenously... (and) orally...No clinical or lab evidence of toxic reaction was seen (by us).

  Charles Moertel

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• Honestly, what we use a lot is melatonin. So we use lower dosages of melatonin, taking it at different times, depending upon where we are traveling and that can really help adjust the body's rhythm to wherever you are going.

  Shelby Harris

  Different, Use, Body

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

  J. B. Smoove

  Kids, Babysitting, Versions

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• Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

  Gina Barreca

  Fear, Safety, Circumstances

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• Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Strong, Medicine, Differences

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• Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

  Herman E. Daly

  Growth, Environmental, Physicians

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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Running, Cancer, Smoking

  Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, 35, July 19, 1961.

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