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I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
Author:
Kip Winger
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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Author:
Simone Weil
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The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.
Author:
Greg Walden
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There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
Author:
Michael Tucker
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Author:
Adam Smith
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Author:
Anne Sexton
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I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Author:
Francis Schaeffer
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If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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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.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Author:
Paracelsus
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The dose makes the poison.
Author:
Paracelsus
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It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
Author:
John Owen
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Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
Author:
Levy Mwanawsa
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Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Author:
Alfred Montapert
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We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Author:
Malachy McCourt
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I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.
Author:
Bill McCollum
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Author:
Lucretius
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Superstition is the poison of the mind.
Author:
Joseph Lewis
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Author:
Edwin Land
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Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
Author:
Edward Kennedy
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Author:
Derrick Jensen
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No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
Author:
Kim Il
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
Author:
Otto Hahn
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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Author:
Otto Hahn
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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.
Author:
George Gurdjieff
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
Author:
Val Guest
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I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Author:
Paul Goodman
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Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.
Author:
Giuseppe Garibaldi
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
Author:
James Forrestal
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The coward's weapon, poison.
Author:
John Fletcher
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Author:
Carrie Fisher
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Author:
Oriana Fallaci
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Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
Author:
William Empson
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My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
Author:
William Empson
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
Author:
Cameron Diaz
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It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.
Author:
Jonathan Davis
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Author:
Chanakya
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Author:
Orson Card
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If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
Author:
Geezer Butler
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I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
Author:
Gisele Bundchen
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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Author:
Buddha
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Author:
Aeschylus
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One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.
Author:
George Ade
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Author:
Henry Adams
