At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
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