Toxic Quotes - Page 2

• Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Running, Risk, Action

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• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  Jackie Stewart

  Fire, Air, Needs

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• Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Fall, Variables, Optimum

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Thinking, Toxic Waste

  "Furor on Memo At World Bank". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1992.

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• I find Hollywood really toxic.

  Rachel Weisz

  Hollywood

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

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• When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

  Darren Johnson

  Past, Focus, Negative

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• What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

  Joseph Prince

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

  John Raese

  Men, Volcanoes, Years

  "Raese to Bank on Cap and Trade Against Manchin" by Scott Conroy, Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2010.

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• It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

  Srikumar Rao

  People, Boss, Hong Kong

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  Yehuda Berg

  Irreparable Harm, Toxic Waste, Climate

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

  Andrew Weil

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

  "Q&A: 'Spontaneous Happiness' with Andrew Weil". Interview with Daniel Lefferts and Luke Dempsey, www.usatoday.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Short Life, Eight, Talking

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• Are you in relationships with people who don't have your well-being at heart? Make a list of these, and consider what you can do to protect yourself from their toxic influence. Sometimes, setting better boundaries and practicing the tools of conscious communication can be transformative. In some cases, ending a relationship may be necessary.

  Deepak Chopra

  Communication, Heart, People

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• It disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is effective.

  Luther L. Bohanon

  Dark, Fda, Age

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• I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Toxic Waste, God's Creation, Waste

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• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

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• The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Giving Up, Drinking

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• One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

  Jim Carrey

  Men, Toxic Waste, Potpourri

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• Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

  Bill Watterson

  Atmosphere, Earth, Bogs

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• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Reading

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• No degree of prosperity could justify
  the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to
  make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or
  even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself,
  a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man.
  The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man
  as if people did not matter at all.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.

  Susan Forward

  Expression, Effort, Parent

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• I've learned to really enjoy video games. It's really toxic to have in your house, because it's really distracting.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Games, House, Video

  "Carrie Brownstein Talks Spells, Book, Sleater-Kinney". Interview with Amy Phillips, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2008.

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• At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

  Richard Bentall

  Psychosis, Environmental, Trying

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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