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• While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Self, Encounters

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• We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

  Greg Walden

  Use, Flow, Chemicals

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• I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

  Jon M. Chu

  Certain, Really Great

  "Interview: Director Jon M. Chu On 'Extraordinary Dancers', 'G.I. Joe 2', and 'Masters Of The Universe'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2012.

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• In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Corn Syrup, Yogurt, Filled

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• Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Blow, Reality, Wind

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• The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

  Tom Petty

  Alcohol, Drug, Liquid

  Song: Echo

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• We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Running, Men

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 133, 1949.

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• Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Whisky, Pleasant

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• Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

  Joan Crawford

  Office, Bricks, Income

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• It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Comedy, Thanks, Being Popular

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

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• I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Two, Rivers, Political

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Rivers

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  Rachel Kushner

  Thinking, Touching, Want

  "Rachel Kushner’s Reno, L.a., And New York" by Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

  Emir Kusturica

  Art, Hollywood, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Country, Powerful

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• Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

  Robert Trout

  Chinese, Enemy, Saws

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• It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Intimate Relationships, Perception

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Halloween, Years

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• Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

  Lucretius

  Food, Science

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Charity, Slander

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• Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

  Rachel Carson

  Believe, Environmental, Earth

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'

  Rachel Carson

  Weed, Song, Believe

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Time, Coffee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.284

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• A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Sweet, Caste System, Taste

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• If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

  Marcus Garvey

  Civilization, Drink, Modern

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.13, The Majority Press

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