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• There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Appreciation, Women, Appreciate

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.26, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, White, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

  Kris Carr

  Thinking, People, Magic

  "How to Do Less and Live More" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, Father, People

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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• My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Home, Needs, My Family

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• I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

  Tim Ferriss

  Fans, Idleness

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• A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

  Ron Fournier

  Humility, Way In Life, Long

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Cuba, Needs

  Interview with Stephen Talbot, www.motherjones.com. November 1988.

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• I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

  Temple Grandin

  Cycling, Years, Nerves

  Interview with Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

  Renny Harlin

  Giving Up, Healthy, Challenges

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Growing Up, Healthy, West

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• I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

  Hulk Hogan

  Real, Cutting, Years

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• From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Alcohol, Drug

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.

  Charles Kingsley

  Bible, Biblical, Special

  "Politics for the People".

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• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

  Gary Larson

  Thinking, Insecurity, Doubt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

  Jim Harrison

  Dog, Rivers, Mountain

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Wolf”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Rain, Fire, Hot

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Strong Poison”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Doe, Looks

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• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

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• Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

  Darcey Steinke

  Needs, Junkie, Feels

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• I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Mean, Boys, Two

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• [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reality, Medicine, Imagination

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• She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

  Anna Godbersen

  Sight

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Rumors”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Reality in strong doses frightens.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Reality

  Victor Hugo “The Novels and Poems of Victor Marie Hugo”

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• Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

  Virginia Woolf

  Goes On, Made

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.42, Oxford University Press, USA

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