Antidote Quotes - Page 4

• No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Dies

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.238, U of Nebraska Press

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• Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

  Daniel Handler

  Cheer, Eye, Snakes

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

  Ken Follett

  Fear, Action

  Ken Follett (2008). “Hornet Flight”, p.351, Pan Macmillan

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• While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

  Jessica Valenti

  Falling In Love, Fun, Bad Ass

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.62, Seal Press

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• I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Inspirational, Persistence, Order

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• The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Success, Business, Inspiration

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• I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Kings, Thinking, Alternatives

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• FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

  Napoleon Hill

  Think And Grow Rich, Elixir, Think Rich Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.46, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Wrath

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• One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Interesting, Greed

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• Your love is just the antidote when nothing else can cure me.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Real, Love Is, Cures

  Song: Push

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• The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Anxiety, Attention

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Loyalty, Grace, Despair

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1588, Bantam

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• A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

  Julie Andrews

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Inspiration, Important

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Hot, Red, Panic

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Caprice

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• There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Suicide, Pain, Self Harm

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, War

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• The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

  Lawrence Summers

  Strong, Dangerous Ideas, Evil

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• Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

  Euripides

  Wine, Sorrow, Rich

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• No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Income, Poverty, Problem

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• Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

  Ruth Messinger

  Judgement, Listening, Matter

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• Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.

  Anton Myrer

  Discipline, Mind, Overcoming

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• Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

  Scott Pelley

  Gossip, Journalism

  "Scott Pelley Is No Fred Friendly" by Michael Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2013.

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