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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma
Anger
Mind
Three
Greed
Evils
Poisons
Delusion
Passions
Afflictions
Infinite
Rooted
Ignorant
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms
Jealousy
Health
Hatred
Own
Enjoy
Minds
Rule
Those
Rank
Bad
Relief
Find
Take
Emotionally
Poisons
Likewise
Denigrate
Trying
Refuse
Suspicion
Them
Who
Fill
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir
Everybody
Poisons
Takes
Himself
Authority
Who
Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.
Robert Baden-Powell
Myself
Tired
Winter
People
Doors
Living
Cold
Air
Summer
Out
Only
Poisons
Catch
Feel
Indoors
Know
Well
Without
Makes
Fresh
Fresh Air
Been
Lot
Blood
Quickly
Room
Why
Sleep
Education, whatever else it should 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
Life
Education
Knowledge
Whatever
Else
Meeting
Adequate
Must
Poisons
Equipment
Against
Skill
Should
Chances
A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
Philip Roth
Needs
Crazy
See
Writer
Driven
Poisons
Him
His
Help
Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
Naomi Klein
Change
People
Oppose
Opposing
Living
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Poisons
Most
Because
Climate
Climate Change
Tar
Canada
Sands
Bodies
Who
Downstream
Here
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
Cyril Connolly
Faith
Thought
Lost
Sense
Action
Saving
Our
Those
Brought
Poisons
Sin
Redemption
Without
Were
Up
Us
Who
Belief
Christians
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
Steven Brust
You
People
Cause
Organ
Earth
Ways
Vital
Poisons
Fail
Failures
Die
Which
Sea
Each
Millions
Number
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Peter Latham
Medicine
Given
Poisons
Same
Oftentimes
Substance
Different