Chapter Sixty Three: Elixir

Poison is in everything, and no thing is

without poison. The dosage makes it either

a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus

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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom

and conscience; the mentality of emnity can

poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life

and death struggle, destroy a society's

tolerance and humanity and block a nation's

progress to freedom and democracy.

Liu Xiaobo

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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions,

passions, and evils, is rooted in three poisons:

Greed, anger, and delusion.

Bodhidharma

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Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Anne Sexton

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We are able to find everything in our memory,

which is like a dispensary or chemical

laboratory in which chance steers our hand

sometimes to a soothing drug, and sometimes

to a dangerous poison.

Marcel Proust

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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut

the meat or the throat of a man; it may be

his food or his poison, his exercise 

or his destruction.

John Owen

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Politics are very much like war.

We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart

doubles the burden for the one who suffers

the disease; he is burdened with his own

sorrow, and groans on seeing 

another's happiness.

Aeschylus

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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy,

which, if remained unused, might become

negative, that is poison.

Laughter is the antidote.

George Gurdjieff

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Education, whatever else it should be or

should not be, must be an inoculation against

the poisons of life and an adequate

equipment in knowledge and skill for

meeting the chances of life.

Havelock Ellis

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I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the

long run, is a more dangerous poison

than straightforward persecution.

Francis Schaeffer

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Although slavery may have been abolished,

the crippling poison of racism still persists,

and the struggle still continues.

Harry Belafonte

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