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Quotes About Remedies

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." —Groucho Marx
~ David Oliver
Meditation—all by itself—may offer more to the health of a modern American than all the pharmaceutical remedies put together."36
~ Dawson Church
We start to create enduring happiness when we cease to complain about anything and try to find the remedies for everything.
~ Debasish Mridha
Ora so che l'amore è l'unica cosa che valga davvero la pena di avere. Tutto il resto, talento, lavoro, arte, religione, conoscenza e tutti gli altri terreni affanni altro non sono che rimedi con i quali coloro che non amano, coloro che non sono amati, tentano di attenuare le loro pene, di anestetizzarsi.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.
~ Alonzo Clark
Just like Supreme Court justices, we as a nation have avoided contemplating remedies because we've indulged in the comfortable delusion that our segregation has not resulted primarily from state action and so, we conclude, there is not much we are required to do about it. Because once entrenched, segregation is difficult to reverse, the easiest course is to ignore it.
~ Richard Rothstein
I sometimes think that Buddhism is the toughest religion in the world. It not only eschews all talk of god but does not allow any instant remedies. Responsibility for one's own acts is its only metaphysics. So
~ Kiran Nagarkar
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
~ Anais Nin
If none of these milder remedies seem to work for you, ask your doctor for a prescription for "magic mouthwash," which is viscous lidocaine, Benadryl elixir, and Maalox or Mylanta. Doesn't sound like something that tastes wonderful, so it must help alleviate and heal those bothersome mouth sores.
~ Deborah A. Cohen
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again when a better comprehension of the theory of our Government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each State is a sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.
~ Jefferson Davis
We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
They called it, oddly, a "toddy." Their homemade remedies for the cold, flu, and croup varied a little, depending on which grandparents were mixing the concoctions, but the active
~ Rick Bragg
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
~ Robert Benchley
Groucho's definition of politics is Marxism in a nutshell: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
~ Robert Lawson
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
La sociedad y la conversación, pues, son los remedios más poderosos para restituir la tranquilidad a la mente, si en algún momento, desgraciadamente, la ha perdido;
~ Adam Smith
Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for restoring the mind to its tranquillity, if, at any time, it has unfortunately lost it; as well as the best preservatives of that equal and happy temper, which is so necessary to self-satisfaction and enjoyment.
~ Adam Smith
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
~ Aesop
It is easy to propose impossible remedies. The
~ Aesop
Magic and its remedies deal with borders, markers, distinctions, insides and outsides, the limits of bodies, and also that which breaches these boundaries; bodily fluids, exchanges of objects through bodies and across thresholds, words that pass through the guard of the ear and enter the mind of the hearer. Women's bodies by virtue of their reproductive capacities, are seen as more open, more grotesque, less autonomous
~ Diane Purkiss
there are also those whose character structure, and hence whose conflicts, differ from those of the majority, so that the remedies which are effective for most of their fellow men are of no help to them. Among this group we sometimes find people of greater integrity and sensitivity than the majority, who for this very reason are incapable of accepting the cultural opiate, while at the same time they are not strong and healthy enough to live soundly "against the stream.
~ Erich Fromm
Whenever I have any beauty doubts, I always look up the Internet for solutions and remedies!
~ Krystle D'Souza
If tax remedies are so advantageous, why would they provoke the ire of voters? Here I will suggest that voters generally, and prosperous voters in particular, suffer from what I call the mother of all cognitive illusions: they believe that having to pay higher taxes would make it more difficult to buy what they want. Like many illusory beliefs, this one may strike most people as self-evidently true. And yet, as I will explain, it is completely baseless.
~ Robert H. Frank
To criticise something imperfect is always amusing, and maybe profitable in those cases where the imperfections can be remedies.
~ Aldous Huxley