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When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

Michael J. Fox

Dream, Doctors, Differences

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The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.

Diane Duane

Hurt, Morning, Live Life

"So You Want To Be a Wizard (Young Wizards, Book 1)". Book by Diane Duane, 1983.

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That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.

Slash

Leather Pants, Jeans, Forgiving

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[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Eric Weiner

Shadow, Sides, Ghost

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It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect... It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless.

Bill Bryson

Sports, Player, Names

"In a Sunburned Country". Book by Bill Bryson, June 18, 2000.

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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Linus Torvalds

Technology, Trying, Microsoft

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Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

Sides, Enjoyable, Effects

"A College Senior Writing a Paper on Why This Show is So Successful". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 24, 2013.

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Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jewel

Careers, Two, Long

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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

Carrie Fisher

Thinking, Mind, Body

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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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You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

John Green

Real, Mutation, Care

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It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Children, Responsibility, Animal

"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.

Paul Krugman

Philosophy, Government, Political

Paul Krugman, Robin Wells (2012). “CourseSmart E-Book for Macroeconomics: A PDF-style E-Book”, p.227, Palgrave Macmillan

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For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness, Dedication, Causes

Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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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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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Steve Rushin

Hockey, Nhl, Style

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Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Garry Trudeau

Self Esteem, Character, Sides

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And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

John Green

Worry, Dying, Sides

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

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Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

John Green

Worry, Dying, Sides

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

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That's where you come in. I want into that guy's mind, and you need to tell me how to do it." Ad shrugged. "Personally, I'd just use a hacksaw, but—" "There are potential consequences and side effects," Eddie said carefully. "Like what?" "Well, worst case... he could end up like Adrian.

J.R. Ward

Guy, Mind, Needs

J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.85, Penguin

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Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

John Green

Dying, Sides, Effects

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained. "Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together. "It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

Ally Carter

Kissing, Doctors, Together

Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.119, Hachette UK

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I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.

Kevin Hearne

Heart, Order, Risk

Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1132, Del Rey

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Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?

Jeaniene Frost

Dream, Cat, Swings

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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Terry Eagleton

War, Enemy, Sides

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