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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Marcus Aurelius

Country, Thinking, Towns

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

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The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Danton

Enemy, Sound, Today

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To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

Richard Thompson

Hate, Judging, Sides

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Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Henry James

Might, Exciting, Vocation

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Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Criticism, Sound, Attention

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So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

Mark Levin

Elderly, Medicine, Sick

Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.

Lenny Bruce

Country, Groups, Bread

"The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

R. C. Sproul

Thinking, Talking, Justice

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Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

Ted Nugent

Teacher, Heart, Soul

Source: www.foxnews.com

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That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Peace, War, Poor

Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

John F. Kennedy

People, Neutrality, Panic

Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

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The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

Summer Sanders

Sleep, Midnight, Matter

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If all would lead their lives in love like me,
Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

Thomas Campion

Love, Moving, Sleep

Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

Horace Walpole

India, Crowns, May

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Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

David Hume

Spring, Intelligent, Secret

David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.374

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To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

Richard Misrach

Photography, Mean, News

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... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

Norman Lear

Christian, Religious, Real

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Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

Ben Maddow

Kids, Fate, Gun

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It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids--I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.

Tenley Albright

Freedom, Moving, Kids

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Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice.

Jon Stewart

Jobs, Believe, Kids

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Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart.

Conan O'Brien

Mean, Color, Green

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Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

Jay Leno

Genius, Warning, Next

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Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

Mason Cooley

Laughter, Sound, Unexpected

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What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.

H. L. Mencken

War, Writing, Character

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.173, Vintage

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Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Charlotte Bronte

Talking, May, Nervous

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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