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• To be a light to others you will need a good dose of the spiritual life. Because as my mother used to say, if you are in a good place, then you can help others; but if you're not well, then go look for somebody who is in a good place who can help you.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  God, Mother, Spiritual

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• We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Physicians

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.154

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• The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strong, Pride, Men

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Wise, Revenge, Mean

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.46, 谷月社

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• On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Proud, Pox

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesn’t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowell’s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.

  Jay Kinney

  Powerful, Eye, Cutting

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• To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.

  Annie Dillard

  Coffee, Useless, Tiny

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• I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

  Steven Morrissey

  Gps, Afternoon, Valium

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• In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on the road to self-destruction. It does not affirm but places upon us greater and greater demands. It destroys the outside world until it is hard to live outside war's grip. It takes a higher and higher dose to achieve any thrill. Finally, one ingests war only to remain numb.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Like Love, Self

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.162, PublicAffairs

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• We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.

  James Callaghan

  War, Cutting, Thinking

  Labour Party Annual Conference Report, (p. 188), 1976.

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• The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Government, Self

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• Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Humility, Successful, Effort

  "When I Met the Legends of Investing - Part 4". Interview with Vishal Khandelwal, www.safalniveshak.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.

  George Leef

  Believe, World, Coercion

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• Only grace-large doses, frequently displayed, released-will restore the wounded.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Grace, Wounded

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• I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.

  Reza Aslan

  Thinking, Catholic, Healthy

  "Sharia Deceptions" by Robert Spencer, www.frontpagemag.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.753, Modern Library

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• Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ideas, Fixing Things, Variability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love?
  The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant being. You are divine. And you are awesome. The sooner you start embracing that and treating yourself accordingly, the sooner your life will begin to unfold with compassion, purpose, ease, health, and vitality.

  Kris Carr

  Compassion, Self, Healthy

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• A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

  Ann Dunham

  Hurt, Civilization, Healthy

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• Take action every day - some small dose at a time.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Motivational, Action, Trainers

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2016

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• Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Buffets, Rationality

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.163, John Wiley & Sons

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• Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

  Russell Baker

  Happiness, Taken, Goal

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• On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.

  Princess Marie Bonaparte

  Strong, Pain, Pregnancy

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• A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.

  Paul Blair

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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