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• Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours." Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?" Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study" Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Dream, Taken, Writing

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• The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Long, Suffering, Trying

  Arthur Rimbaud (1974). “A Season in Hell: The Illuminations”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Christianity, Drink

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

  Carson McCullers

  Giving Up, Men, Ideas

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fog, Mentor, Half

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.897, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Wish

  "Chopin". Book by George Richard Marek, Arthur Maling and Maria Gordon-Smith, 1978.

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• You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale. Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

  T. D. Jakes

  Waiting, Jake, Drink

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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage

  Food, Cooking, Delay

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.

  Thomas Huxley

  Drinking, Practice, Support

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• Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

  Alice May

  Drinking, Hanging On, Resentment

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• I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Hate, Believe, Gay

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• One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Dark, Night

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to be thrown out. You have to go completely crazy to throw it out; otherwise that craziness remains inside you, and won't allow you to get into a silent, watching, witnessing meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Meditation, Mind

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Suffering, Clean

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.357, Univ of California Press

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• Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reality, Authority

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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

  Euripides

  Love, Strong, Simple

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

  Winston Churchill

  Wife, My Wife, Ifs

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• Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

  Seneca the Elder

  Forgiveness, Anger, Half

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• Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

  St. Jerome

  Children, Abortion, Three

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• Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Death, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

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• Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Science, Water

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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