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• Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

  Charles William Eliot

  Evil, Boredom, Overcoming

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time

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• Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

  Seneca the Younger

  Firsts, Extremes

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• The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Errors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.214, Library of America

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• love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.

  Emilie du Chatelet

  Lying, Passion, Learning

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• You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

  Alfred Tarski

  Class, Illusions Of Grandeur, Teeth

  Alfred Tarski, Steven R. Givant (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”

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• They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Past, Rights

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• By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Vanity, Filling Up, Want

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• ... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

  Catharine Beecher

  Giving Up, Men, Order

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.197

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• Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Holy, Communion, Holy Communion

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• If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we do not encourage "science" to fully investigate the medical usages of pot.

  Steven Machat

  Believe, Marijuana, Indulge In

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Our media does by creating fears, encouraging hate and then selling the remedy to the fears and hate the media creates.

  Steven Machat

  Hate, Marijuana, Media

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

  Maimonides

  Food, Wine, Glasses

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Character

  Source: www.monergism.com

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• Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

  John Calvin

  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

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• We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Perspective, Challenges

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

  Galen

  Health, Doe, Helping

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• since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Evil, World, Spirit

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.359

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• Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.

  Al Gore

  Government, Use, Littles

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

  Anita Roddick

  Creating, Getting Older, Doe

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• Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

  David Limbaugh

  Profound, Levels, Problem

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• Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Kindness, Grace, Doe

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2014

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• The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Liberty, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.216, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Management, Inefficiency

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Endurance, Resistance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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