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Letter "P" » poison
«Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.»
Author: Malachy McCourt
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Resentment
| Keywords:
die, For the, poison, resentment, resentments, taking, the Other
«There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
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«To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they»
Author: Ben Okri
| About:
Nations,
Society
| Keywords:
application, demoralised, irresponsible, poison, stories, storyteller, storytellers
«There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.»
Author: Buddha
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Doubt
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«Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
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«Never take the antidote before the poison»
«She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.»
«The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
doctrine, equality, poison, poisonous, preached, There exists
«The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth»
«Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
gas, gases, poison, poison gas, very much, very much like
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