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• The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

  Georges Danton

  Enemy, Sound, Today

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• I won't tell you how many hours a day I work because you wouldn't believe it. But don't worry; I am in bed at 11 p.m., sleep well and get up early, without an alarm clock.

  Michel Ocelot

  Believe, Sleep, Up Early

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Jealous, Long, Unions

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons”, p.216

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• In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.

  Isabel Allende

  Car, House, Would Be

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

  Eric Bolling

  People, Feelings, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

  Epictetus

  Men, Fancy, Opinion

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• Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

  David Hume

  Spring, Intelligent, Secret

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.374

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• The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

  Horace Walpole

  India, Crowns, May

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• If all would lead their lives in love like me,
  Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
  No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
  Unless alarm came from the camp of love.

  Thomas Campion

  Love, Moving, Sleep

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

  Summer Sanders

  Sleep, Midnight, Matter

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• This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Neutrality, Panic

  Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

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• I'm so lazy I've got a smoke alarm with a snooze button.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Lazy

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• That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
  Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Peace, War, Poor

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.

  Ted Nugent

  Teacher, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Talking, Justice

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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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• To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Mean, News

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• ... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Religious, Real

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• The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Mind, Balance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

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• If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

  Francois Fenelon

  Vanity, Imperfection, Annoyed

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• the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Time, Years, Months

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• Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Talking, May, Nervous

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Writing, Character

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.173, Vintage

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• Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

  Mason Cooley

  Laughter, Sound, Unexpected

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• Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

  Jay Leno

  Genius, Warning, Next

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