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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• If there is a way to free ourselves from suffering We must use every moment to find it. Only a fool wants to go on suffering. Isn't it sad to knowingly imbibe poison?

  7th Dalai Lama

  Suffering, Use, Goes On

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• Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

  Charles Schumer

  America, No Excuses, Explanation

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• Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

  Alan Chadwick

  Ivy, Devil, Spit

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• The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice Equality, Doctrine, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1998). “Twilight of the Idols”, OUP Oxford

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• Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

  Ouida

  Hedgerows, Beard, Dishonor

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.444

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• A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

  John Owen

  Men, Soul, May

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.76

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Benefits, Matter

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

  Os Guinness

  Blood, Sloth, Mind

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.142, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  White, Use, Highlights

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• Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Want, Harmony, Divine

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• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Black, Brain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

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• Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

  Artur Schnabel

  Sunshine, Insults You, Bless

  Artur Schnabel (1942). “Music and the line of most resistance”, Da Capo Pr

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• The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Rain, Ozone, Light

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• This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Men, Evil

  Charles Dickens (2017). “Children's Tales from Dickens – The Great Classics & The Wonderful Stories for Children (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Holiday Romance, The Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Christmas Stories, A Child’s Dream of a Star…”, p.1935, e-artnow

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• Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

  Janine Benyus

  Block, Thinking, Shells

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• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Long, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.43

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• Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

  Francois Fenelon

  Running, Wine, Men

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• Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

  William Shakespeare

  Work, Long, Vigor

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Deceit, Honey

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• Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Real, Long

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• Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

  Thomas Paine

  Guilt, Care, Action

  Thomas Paine (1922). “Paine's Complete Works ...”

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• Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Tree, Tears

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.4071, e-artnow

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• Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

  John Keats

  Spring, Flower, Juice

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.41

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