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• My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

  Louise Bourgeois

  People, Want, Effects

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• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Two, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

  John Diefenbaker

  Doctors, Sound, Dollars

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

  Mike Tyson

  Jobs, Motivation, Fear

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• In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Rights, People, Force

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• A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but only one was in the mind of the artist. Some artists say to make the work readable for the public is an artist’s responsibility, but I don’t agree with that. The only responsibility to be absolutely truthful to the self. My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Responsibility, Self

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• Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Memories, Heart

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture in literature delivered only to the Swedish Academy, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

  Banksy

  White, People, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Events, Stories, History Of Life

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• Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.

  George Wigram

  Rocks, Water, Soul

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• The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.

  Bob Brozman

  Running, Moving, Air

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• The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Names, United States, Neutrality

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Age, Force

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  People

  "Keenen Ivory Wayans To Oprah: Funny People Are ‘Innately Disturbed’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

  Susan Griffin

  Museums, Meditation, Painting

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has not been the fact of Russian hacking. The cyber world is full of information gathering, you know, propaganda, et cetera. I have been concerned about the degree to which, in some circles, you've seen people suggest that Vladimir Putin has more credibility than the U.S. government. I think that's something new.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Circles, Government

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm slightly controlling. I'm an Aries and I like things to have an order. I get slightly disturbed and I get slightly distressed and flustered if things go awry.

  Mandy Moore

  Order, Aries, Ifs

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• I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Way, Culture, Helping

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, wvxu.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I'm very disturbed at the picture that was painted by Senator Ted Kennedy that Samuel Alito is not a man of his word, that he is dishonest. The implication that he is not reliable I don't think is a fair characterization of what I've read.

  Tom Coburn

  Men, Thinking, Ted Kennedy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

  Philip K. Dick

  Simple, Principles, Facts

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are a lot of people - and I'm not talking about elected Democrats - there are a lot of your fellow citizens - you don't know them, you don't know where they are - but there's many more of them than you know and realize, and they revel in all of this. They love the chaos. They love the majority being disturbed, bothered, shaken up by it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, People, Majority

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I did work well with Hillary Clinton when she was my colleague in the Senate, and I certainly don't bear her any ill will. But when I listened carefully to her commencement speech, what I heard was a laundry list of very expensive new programs that our country simply cannot afford, and that would add to our already overwhelming $17 trillion debt. I'm also disturbed by the mismatch in her answers to the questions about her e-mail server and what the FBI Director Comey says that the FBI's investigation found.

  Susan Collins

  Country, Laundry, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

  Frederick Buechner

  Views, People, May

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• I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

  Theodore Roethke

  Mean, Order, Broken

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.73, Anchor

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• Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.

  Emilie Autumn

  Sunday, People, Life Is

  Song: The Art Of Suicide, Album: Opheliac, 2006

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