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• For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Fire, Would Be

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• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Parent, Forever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Men, Weapons, Becoming

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• We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

  James Madison

  Liberty, Tyranny Founding Fathers, Firsts

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• But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

  Everett Dirksen

  Wish, Expansion, Embrace

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• I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Fear, Communication

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

  Martin Freeman

  Simple, Clock, Alarm Clocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Paris, Bed

  'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Carpe Diem, Anxiety, Disaster

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

  Jesse McCartney

  Mom, Hard Times, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

  Fanny Burney

  Littles, Now And Then, Stagnation

  Camilla bk. 3, ch. 11 (1796)

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• You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Graduation, Smart

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• It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Artist

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• Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Issues, Environmental, Sound

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ The Clean Room". Documentary, 2014.

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• The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

  Rex Stout

  Trouble, Clock, Absurd

  Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

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• The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

  Don DeLillo

  Fire, House, Batteries

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

  Billie Letts

  Sleep, Three, Firsts

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• Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don’t like to suffer." From then on, the boy understood his heart. He asked it, please, never to stop speaking to him. He asked that, when he wandered far from his dreams, his heart press him and sound the alarm. The boy swore that, every time he heard the alarm, he would heed its message.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Heart, Boys

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• I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Girl, Sick, Cry

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

  Lori Wilde

  Eye, Marine, Hair

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• "Sorry," she said, "I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know." "Explain protocol," Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer. "At the place we’re going, you need to watch your manners. Don’t say 'explain this' or 'explain that.'" "Would it impose on your time unduly to provide me with a concise explanation of the term protocol?" Nell said. Again Rita made that nervous laugh and looked at Nell with an expression that looked like poorly concealed alarm.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sorry, Expression, Laughing

  "The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". Book by Neal Stephenson, February 1995.

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• Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

  Heather Brewer

  School, Lessons, Clock

  Heather Brewer (2009). “Tenth Grade Bleeds #3: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.62, Penguin

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• I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.

  Janet Evanovich

  Distance, Mirrors, Bmw

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.164, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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