Kris Carr

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

American Author

Jeremiah Brent

In my opinion, there's not really a 'worst' flower; however, you do have to do some research based on the people whose space will hold the flowers. For instance, there are some flowers that are poisonous to have around kids or pets.

American Celebrity

Henry Walter Bates

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

English Environmentalist

Geoff Mulgan

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.

English Educator

Charles Bronson

The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.

American Actor

Roberto Cavalli

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

Italian Designer

Jeb Bush

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

American Politician

Pierce Brosnan

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

Irish Actor

Yolanda Hadid

American Model

Bindi Irwin

Australian Actress

Used for plants and animals that naturally produce toxins.

Natural Context

Indicates the potential danger, with death as the most severe consequence.

Severity

Often used to warn someone to steer clear of something dangerous.

Avoidance Advice

Describes situations or behaviors that are toxic and unhealthy.

Metaphoric Use

Highlights the negative feelings that result from a 'poisonous' scenario.

Emotional Impact

Implies a need for caution when engaging with certain people.

Relationship Warning

 so that we're equipped to deal with risks from the outside world. Think about it. Our automatic scratching response would dislodge anything harmful that's potentially lurking on our skin, like a harmful sting, a biting insect, or the tendrils of a poisonous plant.

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 is poisonous to us. We encounter measurements like this pretty often, but because it's hard to conceptualize really large numbers, it's difficult to wrap our brain around what one part per million really means. So here are nine helpful ways to visualize it.

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 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. Unfortunately, only the female of the species produces the antidote, and to make matters worse,

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 Or if you engulfed a cobra and were then able to spit poisonous venom from your teeth. Throughout the history of life, specifically during the evolution of complex eukaryotic cells, things like this happened all the time. One organism absorbed another,

How we think complex...

 The researchers hypothesized that the pregnant ewes had snacked on poisonous birth defect-causing plants. They collected the local flora and fed samples to lab rats, but struggled to replicate the effect. So they decided to directly observe the sheep

The strange case of the...

 evolved a way to trick your eyes, using the physics of light to control what you see. But why blue? Maybe it's to let predators know that you're poisonous. Maybe it's to impress a mate. Maybe it's because blue pigment is so rare,

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 about everything alive. I used to pick up lethally poisonous stinging jellyfish and sing to them. And so starting my career, I was deadly curious about fundamental mysteries of the most basic building blocks of life,

The science of cells...

 and that's a problem it's a familiar point in this country in the poisonous political climate that we live and it's a sort of thinking unfortunately that encourages people to go for the drug that I mentioned at the

How do we reason for a...

 The jellyfish's sting, which helps it capture prey and defend itself, is its most infamous calling card. In the jelly's epidermis, cells called nematocysts lie coiled like poisonous harpoons.

Jellyfish predate...

 drained their poisonous water into the Ganges will be gonna go meet each other Rakesh showed me a channel he said was carrying tannery effluent directly into the river

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