Andrew Weil
Author
"The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms."
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Toxic
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Ward Churchill
Academic, Activist
"Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?"
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic."
James Alan Gardner
Author, Editor
"Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking."
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"Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level."
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"The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems."
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"There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets."
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"My kids look actually happy. And I learned early on that perfectionism and parenthood is a toxic combination for everybody involved. In other words, so many things can flourish naturally. All you gotta do is make sure the soil's right. I view myself more like a guide than a ruler."
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"When you're feeling unwell, remember that the same power that actually made your body knows how to restore it to its original state of well-being. All you have to do is remove the obstacles erected by you and your toxic world, and allow this healing power to flow through you."
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"I do find that I'm drawn to people in my life, romantically or not, that have something to teach me. I'm drawn to people who I feel like I can learn from. I'm not really drawn to toxic people - I don't find myself discovering that someone in my life is toxic very often. But there is some sense of being changed by each person that I think I'm drawn to."
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"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness."
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"In our world, these harmful micro-organisms and an endless list of toxic chemicals consistently assault our immune system. Coupled with these assaults are the daily stresses of life and their deleterious effects upon us."
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"The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve."
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"Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope."
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"Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction."
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"I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone."
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"The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience."
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"Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead."
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