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• Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Good Morning, Good Day

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.143, Grove Press

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• Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Talking, Used, Ends

  "Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

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• If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

  Brit Hume

  People, Add, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Ideas, Design

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• It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it

  James Madison

  Exercise, America, Waiting

  James Madison (1999). “Writings”

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• We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Fire, Justice, House

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• There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed and onto the floor. He in turn leaped on Liana's bed, clinging to it and laughing as the girls tugged at his ankles. "So, are you two betrothed?" Katar asked. "No," Miri said shortly "Ohh." Karter smirked, one eyebrow raised, and she looked altogether more like her old self. "It appears I stumbled upon a topic of conversation even more dangerous than revolution.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Laughter, Self

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• He put on his hat and wrapped his scarf around his jaw, but did without the wig and the sunglasses. He clicked his key chain and the car beeped and the doors locked. "That's it?" He looked up. "Sorry?" "Aren't you afraid it might get stolen? We're not exactly in a good part of town." "It's got a car alarm." "Don't you, like, cast a spell or something? To keep it safe?" "No. It's a pretty good car alarm.

  Derek Landy

  Sorry, Keys, Doors

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• Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

  Paul O'Grady

  Fire, Kitchen, Adventurous

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2011.

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• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Thinking, Fire

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Expedition to Earth”, p.195, RosettaBooks

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• The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Animal

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Law

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Morning, Wake Up

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