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“Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.”

“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.”

People World Two Country Energy Half Millions Economy Waste Percent Resources Accounts Billions Consumers Wealthy Toxic Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption Affluent

Author:Stuart L. Hart

“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

“I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.”

People Thinking Giving Toxic Cocktails

Author:Diablo Cody

“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.”

People Should Use Community Company Waste Majors Rivers Excuse Oil Chemicals Toxic No Excuses Dump Eco Spades Pipeline Sewage Toxic Waste Refinery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into therapy to find ways to cope.”

People Way Doe Sometimes Helping Women Therapy Toxic

Author:Amy Dickinson

“Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.”

People Ifs Giving Reason Action Found Emotion Cry Taste Very Good Toxic Despise Foul Spit Peanuts Examining Insecticides

Book:The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel

Source: The only good thing anyone has ever done: a novel

“From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.”

People Problem Left Views Company Air Mines Industry Mountain Areas Point Of View Locals Streams Chemicals Toxic Coal Cousin Blast Cozy Toxic Chemicals Aquifers

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.”

Cancer Therapy Toxic Conventional Fear Of Death

Author:Julian Whitaker

“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.”

“Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.”

Littles Political Process Citizens Destruction Prepared Experiments Toxic Assured Mutually Assured Destruction

Author:Tim Dorsey

“With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?”

“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.”

“The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.”

Way Light Lasts Views Dangerous Humanism Alternatives Justify Toxic Antidote Tribalism

Author:E. O. Wilson

“A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.”

Thinking World Way Should Children Ideas Home Hurt Ability Views Personality Elements Caring Point Of View Curious Toxic Should I It Hurts Allowance Positive Things Home Life

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.”

Made Evil Mistake Toxic Made A Mistake

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.”

Want Half Empty Glasses Aliens Toxic Crawling Parasites Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pancreas

Author:James Alan Gardner

“Did you know that there is growing scientific consensus that one of the most common types of sugar, fructose, can be toxic to the liver, just like alcohol? And unfortunately, this is the same type of sugar that you find in most sports drinks.”

Knows Sports Common Growing Type Drink Alcohol Toxic Sugar Consensus Liver Did You Know

Author:Lee Labrada

“Slobodan Miloševi?, more than anyone else, caused a division within the Left and Centre Left, dividing the pacifists, anti-imperialists and anti-Americans from the anti-fascists and the internationalists. He reminded too many of us that inaction can be as toxic and murderous as action. He prepared us - for weal or woe - for the new world.”

World Action Left Prepared Division New World Toxic Centre Woe Inaction Fascists Dividing Pacifist

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.”

“In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday.”

“Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.”

Way Firsts Lasts Healing Creation Planets Leaving Rebel Toxic Desperation Our Planet

Author:Sam Smith

“All living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic energy field that protects them from toxic, non-physical energies that would otherwise be detrimental to them.”

Energy Fields Protect Invisible Mysticism Toxic Psychics Living Things Auras Personal Power Detrimental Energy Fields

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”

“Testosterone does not have to be toxic.”

Men Doe Toxic Testosterone

Author:Anna Quindlen

“This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.”

Men Enough Perfect Female Perfection Strive Good Enough Toxic Striving For Perfection

Author:Jane Fonda

“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”

“everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.”

Thinking Stage Toxic Pollution Symptoms Overload Toxins

Book:A Thousand Acres: A Novel

Source: A Thousand Acres: A Novel

“war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons.”

Source: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”

“Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.”

People Important Lasts Life Is Enjoy Hours Talking Minutes Eight Toxic Mum Not Talking Short Life Parasites How Short Life Is Time For Yourself

Author:Ludivine Sagnier

“Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.”

Want Kind Mean Pieces Weapons All Kinds Poison Toxic Pie Junk Poisonous

Book:Just As I Thought

Source: Just As I Thought

“Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.”

Book Felt Written Ill Scar Toxic Tissues Scar Tissue

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”

Doe Ideas Self Stuff Support Habit Toxic Bad Habits Clutter Old Ideas Toxic Relationship

Author:Eleanor Brown

“Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.”

Church Levels Noise Atmosphere Toxic Factories Pollution Pumps Announcements Noise Pollution

Author:Scott McClellan

“One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this climate change, and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.”

Men World Years Looks Whole Climate Climate Change Warm Spells Toxic Volcanoes Cooling Whole Year

Author:John Raese

“The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldnt live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.”

Long Bigs Turns Names Enjoy Animal Enemy Worst Band Singers Toxic Nasty Worst Enemy

Author:Eric Burdon

“Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.”

People Way Materials Inspired Toxic New Ways Shells Spiders Cheaper Silk

Author:Janine Benyus

“Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.”

Book Use Easy Elements Tables Green Chemistry Toxic Recipes Periodic Table

Author:Janine Benyus

“Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise.”

People Life Mind Heart Mean Space Upset Encounters Toxic Heart And Mind Acquaintance Recognise Auras Mean People

Author:Rita Zahara

“When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.”

Giving Heart Persons I Can Soul Spirit Lying Energy Force My Own Environment Cutting Air Communication Envy Toxic Brutal Our Environment My Own Life Disgusted Vibes Bad Vibes

Author:Bindu

“Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.”

World Natural Losing Connections Materialism Toxic Natural World

Author:James Gustave Speth

“Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced into their electrochemical equivalents in the body. You could eat the healthiest meal on the planet, but if you’re thinking toxic thoughts the digestion of your food goes down and your fat storage metabolism can go up. Likewise, you could be eating a nutritionally challenged meal, but if your head and heart are in the right place, the nutritive power of your food will be increased.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Body Brain Planets Judgment Eating Shame Down And Guilt Fats Meals Toxic Right Place Storage Digestion Metabolism Head And Heart Stressors

Author:Marc David

“Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Enough Problem Human Beings Cities Wise Serious Poison Mask Toxic Cigarette Packs Filters Smokers Smog

Author:Ray Comfort

“An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator. It's impossible for a larger entity to swallow a smaller one without completely reshaping it. When this process begins, a wild visionary - the entrepreneur type - is the most toxic, indigestible actor imaginable. And this is why I roll my eyes when a new acquisition is announced: Because I don't see it as a triumphant graduation but a sacrifice to an industry that is afraid to dream big.”

Dream Bigs Eye Values Actors Belief Process Impossible Sacrifice Design Type Industry Ambition Entrepreneur Creator Toxic Entity Visionaries Acquisition Triumphant

Author:Jake Lodwick

“Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.”

“... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents-many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy"-show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.”

“... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.”

Source: Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr

“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.”

“As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or routine-to air, water, or soil. The Toxics Release Inventory is the main registry of such events, and it is available to the public through the Environmental Protection Agency. It is hardly comprehensive. Toxic emissions reported to the federal government are thought to account for only 5 percent of all chemical releases.”

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