#poison

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When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One


Frances Hodgson Burnett


#poison #weakness #anger

A mother's body remembers her babies--the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has its own entreaties to body and soul. It's the last one, though, that overtakes you. I can't dare say I loved the others less, but my first three were all babies at once, and motherhood dismayed me entirely. . . . That's how it is with the firstborn, no matter what kind of mother you are--rich, poor, frazzled half to death or sweetly content. A first child is your own best food forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock by the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.


Barbara Kingsolver


#change

Superstition is the poison of the mind.


Joseph Lewis


#poison #superstition

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.


Golda Meir


#everybody #himself #poisons #takes #who

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.


Lucretia Mott


#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.


Paracelsus


#either #everything #makes #poison #remedy

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.


Joe Paterno


#like #poison #publicity #swallow #unless

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.


Michael Pollan


#bushel #contributing #corn #dead #erosion

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.


Adam Smith


#antidote #enthusiasm #great #poison #superstition

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.


John Sununu


#assume #bad #else #faith #first