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• Scientists say they're getting closer to developing a pill to replace exercising. Americans heard this and said that it better come in cool ranch flavor.

  Conan O'Brien

  Exercise, Flavor, Scientist

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• George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that a lot of people just believe anything you tell them, and no matter what it is, they just go along with the program. They're perfectly happy to take their pill every day and do what they're told, and work and buy things, and work and buy things, and stay out of any complex emotional situations. And whatever the authorities tell them to do, they do, and whatever the authorities say is the truth, they believe is the truth.

  George Lucas

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

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• I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Husband, Magic

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• I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.

  Dean Edell

  Pain, Stupid, Fall

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• Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheist, Atheism, Chewing

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• I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Attitude, Father

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

  Dan John

  Doers, Wallets, Protect

  Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.266, On Target Publications

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• I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren.

  Phyllis Diller

  Grandchildren, Birth Control, Want

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• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
  Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
  Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
  Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
  Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
  Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
  Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
  And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Growing Up, Nuts

  Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”

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• I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Husband, Passion

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• For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

  Betty Ford

  Years, Alcohol, Tolerance

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• It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, People, Giving

  Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

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• I have never lied to the people. I have always told them to love themselves, to move their body, and to watch their portions. I never jumped on any other bandwagons for stupid diets or shots or pills or anything. I'm very worried about our young people. And we need to take care of them, or they're not going to live as long as their parents. And this is really something very important to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Stupid, Moving, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hair, Giving, Nausea

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

  Malcolm Potts

  Modern Life, Machines, Cigarette

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• You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

  Julian Baggini

  Views, Issues, People

  "Speakers' corner" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2008.

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• It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sick, Support, Stronger

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• All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

  Julia Glass

  People, Giving, Perfect

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Daughter, Suicide, Morning

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stress, Thinking, Odyssey

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• How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Lasts, Bitter

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.173, McClelland & Stewart

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• I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Lasts, Thick

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, People, Disaster

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Profound, Odd Things

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

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• If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Coffee, Hair

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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