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If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

American Musician

Matteo Salvini

The only antidote to racism - and the Italians are anything but racist - is to return to a respect for laws and regulations and monitor who enters and who leaves this country.

Italian Politician

Laurent Baheux

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

French Photographer

Adam Smith

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Scottish Economist

Howard Rheingold

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

American Critic

Karl Marx

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

German Philosopher

Joe Wicks

The antidote to addiction is connection and love.

British Author

Jack Nicklaus

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

American Golfer

Joan Baez

Patch Adams

American Author

Use 'antidote' when discussing treatments for poison exposures or overdoses in medical situations.

Medical Context

Sometimes 'antidote' is used metaphorically for something that fixes a problem, like a solution.

Metaphorical Use

An antidote is specific to a certain type of poison—there isn't a universal antidote.

Specificity Matters

Use 'antidote' to express a way to counteract negative emotions or moods, similar to relief.

Emotional Relief

'Antidote to boredom' is a common phrase expressing a means of finding excitement.

Cultural Phrases

'Antidote' is also appropriate when describing a remedy for abstract social or cultural issues.

Abstract Solutions

 Heroism as the antidote to evil, by promoting the heroic imagination, especially in our kids, in our educational system. We want kids to think, "I'm a hero in waiting, waiting for the right situation to come along, and I will act heroically. My whole life, I'm now going to focus away from evil --

The psychology of evil PIPE...

 But you can’t fold the square or alter it otherwise, and you only get one shot at using the laser cutter. The full moon is rising, and in a moment someone will transform and tear you all apart unless you can cure them first. How can you divide the antidote into perfect fifths,

Can you solve the secret...

 and be playful and safe and imaginative. Those who came back to life were those who understood the erotic as an antidote to death. They knew how to keep themselves alive. And when I began to listen to the sexlessness of the couples that I work with,

The secret to desire in...

 I find this incredibly isolating. The concept I'd like to share with you today is an antidote to isolation. It's not a new concept. In fact, it's an age-old way of living, and it still exists in many non-European cultures around the world.

How cohousing can make...

 administer to victims of envenomation jamie's goal is to catch a stone fish for milking so labs can regularly produce the antidote i'm gonna help him catch it right off the bat i encounter a venomous creature

Deadly Stone Fish PIPE...

 A kind of sense of inner freedom as opposite to intense grasping and obsession. Benevolence, loving kindness against hatred. But, of course, each emotion then would need a particular antidote.

The habits of happiness...

 boxes and cleaned incessantly but the order and symmetry were not an antidote strong enough it wasn't until I let myself be wrapped in the dizzying embrace of chaos that I found peace in

Life is messy. Embrace...

 in an antidote to death. And contrary to what you may think, affairs are way less about sex, and a lot more about desire for attention, desire to feel special, desire to feel important.

Rethinking infidelity...

 We're just going to jump back in the car. After 16 minutes, the antidote has just gone in, so let's wait and see how long it takes him to wake up and hopefully, he does.

Agonising Wait For...

 So you're stranded in a huge rainforest, and you've eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need the antidote excreted by a certain species of frog.

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