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• The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

  Tom Petty

  Alcohol, Drug, Liquid

  Song: Echo

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• When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

  Pam W. Vredevelt

  Hurt, Pain, Squares

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• Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.

  George Carlin

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Cancer

  "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1990.

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• I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mean, Unhappy

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• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suicide, Trying, Want

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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• The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.

  George Johnson

  Powerful, Order, Energy

  George Johnson (2010). “Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order”, p.326, Vintage

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• If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

  Alan Bradley

  Ponies, Cyanide, Ifs

  Alan Bradley (2013). “The Flavia de Luce Series 4-Book Bundle: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows”, p.123, Delacorte Press

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• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Book, Thinking

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• Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

  Levy Mwanawasa

  Gmos, People, Giving

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• Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Snakes

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• The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

  David L. Felten

  Motivational, World

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

  Washington Irving

  Jealousy, People, Banquets

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• When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

  Kin Hubbard

  Husband, Done, Chance

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

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• If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

  Ernestine Rose

  Weed, Spring, Flower

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

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• Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Islands, Opiates, Bars

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Birth

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• Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

  Chanakya

  Taken, Medicine, Drunk

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• Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

  John Balguy

  Children, Hands, Giving

  John Balguy (1790). “Twenty-one sermons on the following subjects ... viz”, p.127

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• Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

  Max Lucado

  Forgiving, Enemy, Dose

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Feb 27, 2012

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• Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive.
  They are supersensitive.
  They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas,
  long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Long, Coal

  "Physicist, Purge Thyself". Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969.

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