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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Religion, Atheism

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, March 04, 1831.

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• Politics is mostly pill-taking.

  Thomas Reed

  Political, Politics

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• Rick Santorum doesn't like sex. He doesn't like the pill. He really doesn't like condoms. He said if men are going to pull something on to prevent procreation, nothing works better that a sweater vest.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Men, Sweaters

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag.

  Jackie Collins

  Sex, Want, Bigs

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• I don't know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you're taking painkillers ... I don't want to have to do that.

  Sandy Koufax

  Games, Upset Stomach, Balls

  "Baseball: An Illustrated History". Book by Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward, 1996.

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• I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Television, Produce, Endless

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

  Auberon Waugh

  Holiday, Law, Suffering

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• Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

  Andrew Marr

  Girl, Fashion, Hair

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• Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere
  Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying
  That rush, that drug, that dope
  Those pills, that crumb, that roach
  Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug
  and growing up nobody ever does
  Until your stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become
  Swore I was goin' to be someone
  And growing up everyone always does
  We sell our dreams and our potential
  To escape through that buzz

  Macklemore

  Dream, Growing Up, Motivation

  Song: Otherside

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• It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific.

  Cyril Connolly

  Believe, Beer, Over You

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• The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

  George Clinton

  Headache, Bigger

  Song: Bop Gun

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• Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.

  Scott Turow

  Reading, Drug, Poison

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• Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

  George Eliot

  Ignorance, May, Harm

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.29

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• Power is the engine of the world, and sex and money its oil and lubricants. God is at best the invocation before you start the engine-meaningless if you have no engine to start! God is a goli, a multi-flavoured pill, invented by those who have power, money and sex, to give to those who have none! Love is another great goli. Some days we too swallow these golis. They feel good, like a joint, a temporary high! But they are not the reality. The reality is power, money, sex! And yes, there's another goli-morality!

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Sex, Reality, Love Is

  "The Story of My Assassins: A Novel".

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• A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

  Dawn Powell

  Running, Book, Writing

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

  Evan Davis

  Aerospace, Phones, Car

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• Once Fang took pep pills and they worked - the only time he ever ran to bed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Sloth, Laziness

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• We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Home, Drug, Libertarian

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All that Swinging Sixties. It didn’t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I never really enjoyed the sex.

  Christine Keeler

  Sex, Easy, Ruined

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• I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

  Morgan Spurlock

  Sex, Blue, People

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Laughter, Fun

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• Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

  Brock Clarke

  Naps, People, Retreat

  Brock Clarke (2011). “Exley”, p.32, Algonquin Books

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• When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.

  Brittany Howard

  Children, Real, Party

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• Comedy makes everything accessible.  Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill.  What's fun about it?  Nothing.  And so if you can get news and information about things going on in the world through a comic platform, everything's going to connect. 

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, News, World

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