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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. -- William Howard Taft
If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage. -- Sylvia Earle
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. -- Edmund Burke
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. -- David Trimble
India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror. -- Pranab Mukherjee
'Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car. -- Rick Smolan
It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere. -- Tristram Stuart
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. -- Ernestine Rose
The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases. -- Seth Shostak
Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people. -- Sylvia Earle
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. -- Thomas Jefferson
But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake? -- Charles Stuart Calverley
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. -- Winston Churchill
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. -- William O. Douglas
No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. -- Swami Vivekananda
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. -- Walker Percy
Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful. -- Emily Yoffe
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist. -- Francis Kilvert
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. -- Joanna Baillie
The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.) -- Mary Roach
The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous. -- Jonathan Alter
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man. -- Horace Mann
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. -- Alexander Pope
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners. -- Emily Yoffe
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself. -- Euripides
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious. -- George Eliot
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The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality. -- Celia Thaxter

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