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en Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
  Henry Brooks Adams

en His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.
  Chanakya

en Consumed by desire, they have no understanding at all. They purchase poison, and they are thirsty with their fascination for poison. Telling lies, they eat poison.

en They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

en Poison is their food, and poison is their dress, they fill their mouths with morsels of poison.

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

en The day has become a holiday celebrated by retail discounts and coupons. Unfortunately, we forget the freedom we enjoy as a result of these presidents service to the country. And that's sad because the two presidents honored on Presidents Day are integral to our national ethos, our national character.

en Oct. 1 is a tragic day because it's the first day a law goes into effect that states a legislative belief that children don't need both a mom and a dad.

en Oct. 1 is a tragic day because it's the first day a law goes into effect that states a legislative belief that children don't need both a mom and a dad.

en Bush may make serious attempts at reforming the tax code and social security; he's much less concerned with the risk of failure than previous presidents have been. The expected need to replace two or three Supreme Court justices, however, could so poison the water in Washington that very little will get done. (That is, unless he nominates Professor Tyson, who would be a model jurist).

en A dream has power to poison sleep.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley

en I could catch a monkey. If I was starving I could. I?d make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you?d be dead within a day. Or longer. Different frogs, different times.

en In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose.

en Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
  Emile M. Cioran

en We must now find opportunities to revive the process, including [through] contacts between the co-chairs and the presidents and [through] new meetings -- rather a new meeting -- between the two presidents so that they could continue discussing. But we're now in a rather delicate phase and we haven't even started discussing [that possibility]. It's even difficult to talk to the parties about that because there is no international meeting scheduled [in the near future] that both two presidents could attend.


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