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• I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

  Debby Ryan

  Play, People, Doe

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• To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blood, Office, Giving

  Alexander Hamilton, Julius Goebel, Joseph Henry Smith (1969). “The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary”, p.831, Columbia University Press

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hug, Trying, Bitter

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Sleep, Blow

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• I don't like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don't believe in God, or at least not in the one we've invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they've invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, America, Ideas

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

  Sophia Bush

  Morning, Sleep, Past

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• As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

  Janet Jackson

  Morning, Children, School

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• I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.

  Donatella Versace

  Sleep, Wake Up, Clock

  "My List: Donatella Versace in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Needs, Next, Clock

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

  Chris Hardwick

  Philosophy, Real, Trying

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• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

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• Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Trying, World, Satisfaction

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• But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Giving, Unnecessary, Imagine

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The Scarlet letter”

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• Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Looks, Useless

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.169, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.

  Stephen Fry

  Morning, Fall, Symphony

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• I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Mind, Watches, Generations

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jesus, Pms, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, War, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

  Martin Amis

  Usual, Six, Clock

  Martin Amis (1995). “The Information”

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• To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

  Judith N. Shklar

  Fear, Alive, Danger

  Judith N. Shklar, Stanley Hoffmann (1998). “Political Thought and Political Thinkers”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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• When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

  Gary L. Tooker

  Service Culture, Wake Up, Bells

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• A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.

  James Dobson

  Government, President, Campaigns

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• Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Years, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Buttons, Poor, Clock

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• Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

  David Ogilvy

  Sound, Advertising, Deals

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.89, Profile Books

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