Geezer Butler
Musician
"If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys."
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Poison
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't."
Rachel Carson
Biologist, Conservationist, Author
"Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides."
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"At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike."
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"When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease."
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"Remorse is the poison of life."
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"The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison."
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"Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers."
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"Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system."
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"I see the glass half full...but of poison."
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"To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die."
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"Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves."
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"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
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"One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons."
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"Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world."
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"Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison."
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"Love is madness, and lust is poison."
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"To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die."
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"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words."
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"Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
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"Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison."
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"Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it."
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"A dream has power to poison sleep."
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