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• Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.

  Maxim Gorky

  Lying, Struggle, Ambition

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• The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

  George Washington Carver

  Death, Snakes, Progress

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.165, University of Missouri Press

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• The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Running, Big Fish, Middle

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• Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Discovery, Quality

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  People, Trying, Twists

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• It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

  Janet Suzman

  Fighting, Ideas, Differences

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• Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.

  Peter Prange

  Book, Teaching, Healing

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• Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

  Bill Nighy

  Long, Mysterious, Fascism

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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• If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Knowing, Our World

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• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Ernst Zundel

  Country, Running, War

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• endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Acceptance, Roots, Joy

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• Secrets can be poisonous.

  James Scott

  Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.

  Henry Rollins

  Appreciation, Thinking, Animal

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Editors, Assessment

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

  John Wesley

  Animal, Men, Order

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• Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.

  John Bosco

  Snakes, Companion, Bites

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Punishment, Church, Sin

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• You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Religious, Heart, Names

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• A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Teeth, Bitter Words, Serpent

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• It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Shirts, Sole, Rules Of Life

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1953). “Letters to his wife”

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• When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain an attitude freer than fear? When confronted with upsets and the poisonous projections of others, can you remember that all is well? Do you know that you are a spiritual being, not subject to the whims and caprices of earthly tides?

  Alan Cohen

  Spiritual, Attitude, Heart

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• In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Individuals take part less often in voluntary community activities and more often in belligerent political contests. Genuine communities cannot breathe in the poisonous atmosphere of redistributional politics.

  Robert Higgs

  Community, Political, Atmosphere

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• Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Culture, Gratefulness

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