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• The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, House, Association

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.237, Random House

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• Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fear, Causes, Sides

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• Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

  Will Hermes

  Passion, Love Is, Differences

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• If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Drug, Doe

  "Charlie Brooker: the dark side of our gadget addiction" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. December 01, 2011.

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Success, Trust, Sympathy

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Some people prefer not to commingle the functional, lambda-calculus part of a language with the parts that do side effects. It seems they believe in the separation of Church and state.

  Guy Steele

  Believe, People, Church

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• If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.

  Robert S. Mendelsohn

  Pigs, Drug, Sides

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• The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

  Alan Watts

  Marijuana, Might, Sides

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• In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects of the BCG vaccine, the STIKO can no longer support the recommendation for this vaccination.

  Robert Koch

  Views, Vaccines, Effectiveness

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• I think it's fascinating to note that some of the most successful organizations of our time got there by focusing obsessively on service, viewing compensation as an afterthought or a side effect. As marketing gets more and more expensive, it turns out that caring for people is a useful shortcut to trust, which leads to all the other things that a growing organization seeks.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Caring, Thinking

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• Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions.

  Cindy Crawford

  Drug, Causes, Sides

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• The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy, moreover, is likely to be perverse. High interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure, as well as inhibiting the expansion of capacity or the introduction of cost -reducing capital improvements.

  William Vickrey

  Cost, Pressure, Sides

  "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".

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• All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Sides, Alternatives, Regulation

  "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1962.

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• [U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

  Milton Friedman

  Investing, Sides, Economics

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• Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.

  William Vickrey

  Mean, Land, Cities

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• When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which had the side effect of turning my skin green. Looking like Shrek's little sister at school wasn't the easiest thing.

  Jessie J

  School, Little Sister, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.

  A.S. King

  Thinking, People, Alcohol

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• To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

  Dale Archer

  Skills, Important, Done

  "In the Cockpit, on Antidepressants: A Doctor Weighs In" by Karlie Pouliot, www.foxnews.com. April 02, 2010.

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• No action is without its side effects.

  Barry Commoner

  Sides, Action, Effects

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• We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

  John McAfee

  Yoga, Practice, Focus

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• We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

  Deepak Chopra

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

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• Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Dedication, Causes, Sides

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• Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.

  Robert Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Father, Holiday, Two Sides

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