Toxic Quotes - Page 9

• Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

  Phil Cooke

  Leader, Vision, Important

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• The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don't have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.

  Jodee Blanco

  Love You, Long, Giving

  Jodee Blanco (2010). “Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story”, p.139, Adams Media

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• The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

  Anshu Jain

  Inspiring, Shadow, Important

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• Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.

  Byron York

  Party, Worry, President

  "Obama's dangerous legacy for Democrats" by Byron York, www.washingtonexaminer.com. December 2, 2014.

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• "That we're dysfunctional and toxic!""We were dysfunctional and toxic," I correct her.

  Tarryn Fisher

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• You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

  Nicholas Sparks

  Toxic Waste, Gossip, Towns

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• The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

  Michael Parenti

  Nature, Money, Army

  "Against Empire". Book by Michael Parenti, May 1995.

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

  Rob Brezsny

  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Compassion

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

  Widad Akrawi

  Country, War, Profound

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• Jess:"Sasha? I need some tissue to pack my nose with." Sasha:"Is that hygienically sound?" Jess:"Sasha..." Sasha:"Fine, but if you get toxic shock up your nose, buddy, remember I warned you." Jess pulled a couple out and wedged them into his nostrils. He gave Abigail a sheepish smile. "Sexy, right?" Abby: "Oh yeah, baby. You're so hot right now, if I was a chicken I'd lay hard-boiled eggs.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sexy, Baby, Couple

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• She remembered me.' This was his worst weakness, his most toxic drug.

  Ann Brashares

  Drug, Weakness, Worst

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• Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sadness, Clouds, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 17, 2014

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• Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

  Charlie LeDuff

  People, Birth, Environment

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.170, Penguin

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• The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Self, People, Pessimistic

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.99, Penguin

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• Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

  Daniel Goleman

  Bystanders, Emotion, Innocent

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.14, Random House

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• The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Weed, Pain, Cancer

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• I’m from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jersey, Born, New Jersey

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.733, Simon and Schuster

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• Carbon dioxide is....being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Facts, Carbon, Grows

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• Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation. There is increasing evidence that woman-hating Western cultures are toxic to girls and very harmful to their mental health. It is, perhaps, not surprising, therefore, that there seem to be some girls baling out and seeking to upgrade their status.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Girl, Teenage, Hate

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• In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Food, Health, Animal

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• Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

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• In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Water, Substance, Sweden

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• Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

  Craig Groeschel

  Bitterness, Needs, Emotion

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