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• These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I am not certain what this cure is meant to mend. Perhaps I am learning to live amongst the living again. Practising, I mean. But no, that is not it. Being here is just a way of not being anywhere.

  John Banville

  Mean, World, Way

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• Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement.

  Tony Dungy

  Encouragement, Doe, Moral

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.177, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Children, Cancer, Fighting

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• While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Reality, Eagles

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• I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality.

  Peter Oppenheimer

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

  Bill Griffith

  Reality, Attention, Way

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• I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Real, Believe, Film Music

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• Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

  Graham Swift

  Country, Strong, Children

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

  Paracelsus

  Quality, Poison, All Things

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• Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Children, Health

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.164, Macmillan

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• I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Healing, Reality, Light

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• In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Drug, Modern, Individual

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• Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

  Mandy Moore

  Country, Reality, Healthy

  "Fighting Malaria With Nets" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

  Al Pacino

  Italian, America, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dose makes the poison.

  Paracelsus

  Poison

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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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• Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Strong, Mean, Pride

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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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• It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Children, Thinking, Games

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• I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

  Greg Graffin

  Healthy, Punk, Skepticism

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• Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Strong, Stupid

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• A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Taken, Love Is, Self

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kindness, Crazy, Destiny

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