Toxic Quotes

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  Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head.
  Raise the rent and kick them out.

  Zig Ziglar

  Relationship, Space, People

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 31, 2012

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• Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Lying, Mind, Tonight

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 19, 2016

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• Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

  David Suzuki

  Drinking, Water, Hydraulic Fracturing

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• What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

  Moby

  People, Addiction, Normal

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• The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.

  Andrew Weil

  Body, Way, Depends

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• I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Thinking, Toxic Waste

  "Furor on Memo At World Bank". www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1992.

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• The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  People, Allergies, Might

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• Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

  Gregory Bateson

  Fall, Variables, Optimum

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Running, Risk, Action

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• I find Hollywood really toxic.

  Rachel Weisz

  Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  Jackie Stewart

  Fire, Air, Needs

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• Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

  Fred Thompson

  Toxic Waste, America, Cleaning

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• There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Thinking, Metaphor

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• If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

  Danny Glover

  Country, Men, Looks

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Country, Children, Women

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• What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

  Joseph Prince

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Brain, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.221, Random House

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• One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

  John Raese

  Men, Volcanoes, Years

  "Raese to Bank on Cap and Trade Against Manchin" by Scott Conroy, Erin McPike, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 27, 2010.

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• When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

  Darren Johnson

  Past, Focus, Negative

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• Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

  Olive Schreiner

  Humanity, Gone, Slavery

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• There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Addiction, Abuse

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• Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Short Life, Eight, Talking

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• It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them.

  Srikumar Rao

  People, Boss, Hong Kong

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• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  Yehuda Berg

  Irreparable Harm, Toxic Waste, Climate

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2010.

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• The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

  Andrew Weil

  Children, Emotional, Thinking

  "Q&A: 'Spontaneous Happiness' with Andrew Weil". Interview with Daniel Lefferts and Luke Dempsey, www.usatoday.com. March 21, 2013.

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