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• By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Attitude, Addiction

  "Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, American Poverty, 50 Years Later". www.tomdispatch.com. March 15, 2012.

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• The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

  Kelly Link

  Men, Evil, Too Much

  Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.76, Small Beer Press

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• I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

  Thom Yorke

  Quiet, Surprise, Carbon

  "Song: No Surprises (OK Computer)". January 12, 1998.

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• I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

  Jack Osbourne

  Morning, Broken, Get Up

  "The Osbournes". TV Series 2002–2005,

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• What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.

  Anthony Storr

  Religious, Numbers, Long

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• ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Sleep, Blow

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• Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks. We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night.

  Jake Halpern

  Real, Night, Light

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I remember a phone call from a friend of mine who lives along the MacKenzie River. She said, "This is the first year in twenty that the chinook salmon have not returned." This woman knows the names of things. This woman is committed to a place. And she sounded the alarm.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Phones, Years, Names

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and move directly into writing. I guess my favorite poems contain a mixture of intuitive and analytical thought.

  James Arthur

  Dream, Moving, Writing

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

  Henry James

  Might, Exciting, Vocation

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• Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Criticism, Sound, Attention

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• So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

  Mark Levin

  Elderly, Medicine, Sick

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Speech, Ready

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.635, Vintage

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• If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.

  John Hagee

  Dream, Love Is, Clock

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• I got a smoke alarm at home, but really it's more like a 9-volt-battery-slowly-drainer.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Understanding, Kind

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

  Richard Thompson

  Hate, Judging, Sides

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• With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Giving, Sides, Chemicals

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hug, Trying, Bitter

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blood, Office, Giving

  Alexander Hamilton, Julius Goebel, Joseph Henry Smith (1969). “The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary”, p.831, Columbia University Press

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• I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

  Debby Ryan

  Play, People, Doe

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• No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

  Kyrie Irving

  Passion, Clock, Needed

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• Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

  Michael Birch

  Simple, Site

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• I don't like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don't believe in God, or at least not in the one we've invented for ourselves in England to fulfill our peculiarly English needs, and certainly not in the ones they've invented in America who supply their servants with toupees, television stations and, most importantly, toll-free telephone numbers. I wish that people who did believe in such things would keep them to themselves and not export them to the developing world.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, America, Ideas

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Thinking, Towns

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

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