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Quotes About Remedy

Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.
~ Jennifer Paterson
One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room.
~ Jesse Ball
One of the most persistent problems of the day was "offensive feet," caused by the prevailing habit of washing feet only once a week. To combat this, Hollingsworth wrote, "Take one part muriatic acid to ten parts of water; rub the feet every night with this mixture before retiring to bed." To rid your mouth of the odor of onions, drink strong coffee.
~ Erik Larson
The tyranny of words is only slightly less absolute than that of men; but whereas elections, revolutions, or just the dreary passage of time can do away with human tyranny, patient analysis and redefinition are required to remedy the linguistic affliction.
~ Ernst B. Haas
So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is limited.
~ Eugene L. Lowry
Playing the bagpipes – as everyone knows – is the best remedy for depression
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
~ Sayed Kashua
Fue una misión triste y deprimente porque cuanto más aprendía menos remedio parecía tener la tragedia de Oriente Próximo. Que los venales países occidentales traficaran con sus letales productos en el mundo musulmán e Israel era una cosa; otra muy diferente era contemplar esos mismos países de Oriente Próximo suplicando, gimiendo y despilfarrando su riqueza para comprar esas mismas armas.
~ Robert Fisk
But the conventional practice, particularly in a large foundation, is to delegate administration to a hierarchical staff structure, much as a business board would do it. And when bureaucratic inertia takes over, as it does—in time—in all institutions that are so structured, the usual remedy is to install a new top administrator who will build some new life into it.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
The cause of the oppressiveness and the precise circumstances are different, but the pervasive oppressiveness is very similar. And the remedy, I believe, is the same: raise the spirit of young people, help them build their confidence that they can successfully contend with the condition, work with them to find the direction they need to go and the competencies they need to acquire, and send them on their way. This is the task that is right for secondary education—and the time is right.
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
She sent me a bottle with a liquid composed of lemon juice, egg white and French brandy. In a few days my sunburn disappeared and since then I have always used this mixture. One
~ Robert K. Massie
In the disconnect between grievance and remedy, there is an astonishing muddle. Angry people vote for a seeming populist, and they get an autocrat whose policies and appointees make the economy even more tilted to the very rich. Trump's populism turns out to be a blend of spite, entertainment, jingoism—and alliance with corporations when it comes to actual policy. Yet in the absence of government policies to lean against the predations of the market, Trumpism fills the vacuum.
~ Robert Kuttner
For every ill beneath the sun, There is some remedy, or none Should there be one, resolve to find it; If not, submit, and never mind it. -Ancient West County wise saw or saying
~ Robin Artisson
The great artists of the past were aware that human life was full of chaos and suffering but they had a remedy for this and the name of that remedy was beauty. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy, it shows human life to be worthwhile
~ Roger Scruton
When such remedies failed, Rockefeller decided to buy a wig.
~ Ron Chernow
it also follows that the oppressed can't criticize the powerful. The only remedy, so far as I can see, for what threatens to be a strongly conservative upshot, is to accept an overt double standard: allow a questionable idea to be criticized if it is held by those in a position of power-Christian creationism, for example-hut not if it is held by those whom the powerful oppress-Zuni creationism, for example.
~ Lingua Franca
What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
~ Sai Baba
The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.
~ John Cassian
The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found.
~ Boyd K. Packer
The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.
~ Aldous Huxley
Nineteen of the hottest years on earth have occurred since 2001. These are facts, not fiction. For people to deny global warming is beyond me. The planet is in trouble. It didn't happen overnight. It's taken 150 years to get to where we are today. So, we're not going to remedy this problem in a year or two. But we have to do something about it.
~ Alex Trebek
You showed me there is something in the forest to cure most anything that bothers you.
~ Donald Smith
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.
~ Dorothy Sayers
One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.
~ Dossie Easton