Dose Quotes

• All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Funny, Imperfection, Easier

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Introvert, Okay, Introversion

  "Caring for Your Introvert". www.theatlantic.com. March 2003.

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• Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

  Ringo Starr

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Soul

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• One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Practice, Division

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• How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Summer, Thinking, Sky

  Jonathan Lethem (2003). “The Fortress of Solitude”, Large Print Press

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• I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

  Lily Tomlin

  Witty, Reality, Lifestyle

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• I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better guide us in such matters, ... If my memory serves me well, more than a decade ago The Episcopal Church said euthanasia or the intentional shortening of an individual's life, by lethal doses of drugs or otherwise, was not acceptable.

  Susan P. Crawford

  Sorry, Memories, Thinking

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• Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

  Claude Bernard

  Drug, Poison, Matter

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• Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, Memorable, Anchors

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

  Mark Twain

  Running, German Language, Brain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Regret, Lectures

  Alfred North Whitehead (1920). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919”, Cambridge University Press

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• I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street.

  Simon McKeon

  Balance, Needs, Environment

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• Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Theologian, Seriousness, Ultimate

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• Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Television, Avoiding

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• With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to do. I also got to study the success of those I did business with as well. I had more than a healthy dose of fear, and an unlimited amount of hope, and more importantly, no limit on time and effort.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Mistake, Effort

  Article by Mark Cuban, blogmaverick.com. May 30, 2005.

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• The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Faith, Real, Religion

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• A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

  Alexandra Ivy

  Medicine, Lips, Twisted

  Alexandra Ivy, Angie Fox, Tami Dane, Jess Haines (2014). “The Real Werewives of Vampire County”, p.12, Zebra Books

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• I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Dream, Falling In Love, Powerful

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• Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

  David Levithan

  Arsenic, Dies

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.10, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mistake, Kids

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• Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

  Norman Grubb

  Truth, Infinite, Being Human

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• When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.

  Kid Cudi

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

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• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Spiritual, Jobs

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