Best Poison Wisdom
875 Poison quotes by 609 unique authors
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In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from…
— Jim Garrison
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Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of…
— Scott Turow
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Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air.…
— Maria Rodale
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Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.
— Laurence Overmire
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original…
— Thomas Brooks
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And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will…
— Quentin Tarantino
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Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to…
— Allan Holdsworth
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
— Walter Bagehot
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
— Ray Bradbury
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Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the…
— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil…
— John T. Flynn
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A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station—all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and,…
— George Mikes
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By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it,…
— Louis Zamperini
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Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his…
— A. E. Housman
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The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.
— Unknown Author
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The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore,…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look…
— Pam W. Vredevelt
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Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know…
— George Carlin
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I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If…
— Rajneesh
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well,…
— Jonathan Ames
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"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on…
— Charles Bernhard Heyd
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The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible…
— George Johnson
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