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• Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

  Byron Katie

  Positive, Freedom, Stress

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2011

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• Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!

  Duncan Jones

  Would Be, World, Facts

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Husband, Humor

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• We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, War, Buddhism

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• We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

  John Keats

  Hope, Religious, Regret

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• One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Hurt, Real, Kids

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
  If my burglar alarm starts ringing

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Flower, Hip Hop

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• My radio's loud like a fire alarm:
  The floor vibrates, the walls cave in,
  The bass makes my eardrums seem thin.
  Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back...
  You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac!

  LL Cool J

  Wall, Party, Rap

  Song: I Can't Live Without My Radio, Album: Radio

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• His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Responsibility

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• When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.

  Mencius

  Children, Fall, Men

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• Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
  No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.

  Steven Morrissey

  Music, Night, Lasts

  "Song: 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me'". 1987.

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• Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Cities, Confusion

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Hate, Mad, Get Real

  Interview with Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.

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• You don't need an alarm clock when you sleep with 20 models a night, one of those broads'll figure out that they better make breakfast in bed or I'll kill all of them.

  Zach Braff

  Sleep, Night, Bed

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• The look of love alarms
  Because 'tis filled with fire;
  But the look of soft deceit
  Shall win the lover's hire.

  William Blake

  Love, Fire, Deceit

  "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings". Book by William Blake, 1966.

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• It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

  Garry Kasparov

  Team, Intelligent, Blue

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Space, Silence

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

  Gordon Cooper

  Intelligent, Order, Our World

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• How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

  John Cheever

  Mean, People, Sound

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Program Alarm, it's a 1202.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Apollo, Program, Star Gazing

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• Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

  Charles Duke

  Apollo, Goes On, Roger

  "First Man on the Moon", www.pbs.org. December 3, 2014.

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Sweet, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XLIX”

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• Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Anger, Loss, Purpose

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• To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Guilt

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47

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