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• The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Thinking, Talking, Weather

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.109, BookBaby

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• I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Essence, Mind, Wire

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, People, Pork

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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• Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

  Gore Vidal

  Weed, Flower, Criticism

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Weekend, Optimism

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, July 27, 1989.

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• It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Night, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.55, Library of America

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• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Feelings, Intellectual, Weak Points

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• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Sides, Form

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

  Milan Kundera

  Actors, Rehearsal, Unbearable

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• Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they often seem to thrive during the first few years. It is sometimes not until the third grade that their teachers start to see the warning signs of failure. By the fourth grade many children see it too.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, School

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.70, Broadway Books

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• We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.

  Madison Grant

  Book, Believe, Publishing House

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• The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Long, Attention, Tipping

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• Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

  Henry C. Link

  Fear, Halloween, Busy

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• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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• Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?

  Sam Nunn

  War, Fire, Russia

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• The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.

  Barry Commoner

  Suicidal, Environmental, Source

  Barry Commoner (2014). “The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology”, p.108, Knopf

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• Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

  John Keble

  Morning, Voice, Light

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.52

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• I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There's never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me

  Zooey Deschanel

  Beautiful, Morning, Home

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• I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Tools, Crowds

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 8, 2011.

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• We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings.

  George Galloway

  Country, Government, Iraq

  "Galloway: Bombings price of Iraq". news.bbc.co.uk. July 8, 2005.

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• And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

  Conor Oberst

  Doors, Long, Shadow

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• Man will take anything you like, except warning.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Men

  "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.

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• In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

  Paul Samuelson

  Past, Guarantees, Investing

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• No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Past, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

  Bill Gates

  Epidemics, Ebola, Wake Up

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