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• Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

  Pat Conroy

  Ocean, Mountain Ranges, Sight

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

  Mary McCarthy

  Together, Poison, Pairs

  Mary McCarthy (1981). “The hounds of summer and other stories: Mary McCarthy's short fiction”

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• Work is always an antidote to depression.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Depression

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• The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.

  David Levithan

  Mistake, Thinking, Uncertainty

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• [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mindfulness, Sentimental, Belief

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• Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times.

  Mark Levin

  Philosophy, Years, Age

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• As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Suffering, Action

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

  Irving Stone

  Poison

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• we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

  Dean Koontz

  Laughter, Despair, Remains

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

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• Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Light, Soul

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

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• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

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• Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

  J. K. Rowling

  Might, Research, Professors

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.

  Marianne de Pierres

  Believe, Self, Discipline

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• Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

  Neil Postman

  Laughter, Sea, Voice

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• Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Boredom, Bored, Extremes

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• Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorrow, Holmes, Dear

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.871, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Grief, World

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.

  Peter Lerangis

  Kindness, Air, Giving

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.”   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

  Daniel H. Pink

  Running, Business, Ideas

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Connections, Deep Connections, Madness

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Crushed, Ifs

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• The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Technique, Raw Materials

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• The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.

  Nick Baylis

  Personality, Doe, News

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• Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

  Jonathan Haidt

  Empathy, Moral, Righteousness

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.49, Vintage

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