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• Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Horror Stories, Errors, Identity

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• I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Humor, Mean

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• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Law, Society

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  R. D. Laing

  Hero, Medusa, Stones

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• I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

  Courtney Love

  Sex, Sick, Vision

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• An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Men, Inspire

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

  Jon Meacham

  Texas, September 11, London

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• Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Jesus, Kings

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• When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Art, Segregation, Works Of Art

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• People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.

  Bill Murray

  Children, People, New Start

  Interview with Rich Cohen, www.rollingstone.com. October , 2003.

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• I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  New York, Thinking, Israel

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• Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Mean, Organization, Hezbollah

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• Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

  James Otis

  Men, Tyrants, Soul

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Art, Restoration

  "The eyes of the beholder" by Camille Paglia, www.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 1991.

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• Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.

  Shimon Peres

  True Friend, July, Israel

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• Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

  Shimon Peres

  War, Mean, Rights

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Middle East, Hegemony

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• No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Rights, Needs

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• Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Commitment, Citizens, Failing

  "Living together takes effort" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2005.

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• Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

  Lou Reed

  Dictator, Claims

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• How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

  Keanu Reeves

  Aging, Wonder, Yeah

  “Hot Topic: Keanu Reeves” by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. May 3, 2013.

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• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Doors

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• Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Abuse, Unity, Needs

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

  Selfish, Men, Overcoming

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

  Clara Schumann

  Memories, Play, Agony

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