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• If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

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• He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

  William Goldman

  Sports, Pain, Revenge

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• Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

  William Shakespeare

  Sugar

  King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 2.

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• Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Giving

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• If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kindness, Cutting, Clouds

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

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• Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

  Dean Koontz

  Soul, Mind, Ready

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.134, Bantam

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• Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.

  Chris Wooding

  Children, Sarcasm, Names

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• Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Defense, Use

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• If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

  Lewis Carroll

  Wonderland, Bottles, Drink

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.16, Branden Books

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• Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Sacrifice, Men, Political

  "Get Mad as Hell About Citizens United and Register to Vote" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison; and other people just hate him regular.

  Buddy Hackett

  Hate, People, Emotion

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

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• Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Feelings, Good Things

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• When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Fighting, Arms

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• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea”, p.82, Wildside Press LLC

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• Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

  Edward Kennedy

  Integrity, Lying, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

  John Lydon

  Inspiration, Ideas, Influence

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

  James Madison

  Blessing, Liberty, Policy

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution".

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• I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Depression, Enemy, Way

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• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Hands, Drug

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• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

  Simone Weil

  Destiny, Ideas, Progress

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Turkeys, Bipolar, Negative

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• I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Thinking, Goes On

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• Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Reading, Men, Voice

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• To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Proud, Virtue, Antidote

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.263, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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