Dose Quotes

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Wislawa Szymborska

Funny, Imperfection, Easier

"The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Charles Baudelaire

Writing, Proud, Pox

Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

Rick Perry

Believe, Thinking, Government

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The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Mark Batterson

Fear Of Failure, Antidote

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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

Art, Ingredients, Absence

Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

Kristen Stewart

Teacher, School, Kids

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard

Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicine, Hundred, Probability

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One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

Fred Brooks

Humility, Men, Race

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Blood, Scotland, Poison

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This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna

Psychedelic, Should, Threshold

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The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

Terence McKenna

Clueless, News, Democratic

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In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

Sue Grafton

Junk, Opinion, Conditions

Sue Grafton (2011). “Q is for Quarry”, p.143, Pan Macmillan

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On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.

Princess Marie Bonaparte

Strong, Pain, Pregnancy

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A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.

Paul Blair

Sports, Baseball, New York

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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.

Annie Dillard

Coffee, Useless, Tiny

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Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesn’t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowell’s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.

Jay Kinney

Powerful, Eye, Cutting

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The dose makes the poison.

Paracelsus

Poison

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How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Attitude, Mean, Thinking

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The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

Terence McKenna

Healthy, Darkness, Psilocybin

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Starting our day off with a dose of negativity can have lasting effects.

Michelle Gielan

Negativity, Days Off, Starting

Source: www.goodreads.com

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I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

Arik Roper

Growing Up, Healthy, Eras

Source: dailydead.com

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Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

Jill Stein

Years, Vaccines, Movement

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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When you're in the grip of frustration, love can seem pretty much out of the question. Care is going to be a stretch. But appreciation is easy-even if it starts out kind of snide like, "I appreciate the fact I haven't fallen flat on my face ... yet." After a couple of stabs at it, you're going to stumble across one that sincerely touches you. Maybe it's your friends, your partner, your loved ones. One strong dose of appreciation can turn your perceptions around 180 degrees.

Doc Childre

Appreciation, Strong, Couple

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I was doing interviews and a question came up about whether I had anything I was addicted to. I said 'I actually have an addiction to eye drops.' And like, as I was on the phone I'd had my third - in the hour! - dose. I had them with me all the time.

Jennifer Aniston

Eye, Phones, Addiction

"Jennifer Aniston on Battling Dry Eyes and the New Herb She Thinks You Should Try". Interview with Sara Gaynes Levy, www.glamour.com. August 26, 2016.

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