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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

  George Eliot

  Omission, Sublime, Poet

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Simple, Sight, People

  Hueffer, Ford Madox (2014). “Ancient Lights And Certain New Reflections Being The Memories Of A Young Man”, p.158, Read Books Ltd

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• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

  Dick Cavett

  Loss, Losing, Problem

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with
  'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960,
  Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should
  'get off that race question.'

  Patricia Stephens Due

  Race, Order, Judging

  Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

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• It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

  Helen Garner

  Echoes, Age, Looks

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• The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Iraq, Administration

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• I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

  John Tuzo Wilson

  Science, Scientist, Enjoy

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• The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
  The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
  The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
  best use out of every situation.
  Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
  to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mother, Blessing, Technique

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• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Perspective

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• The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

  Sophia Myles

  Creepy, Insane, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

  Ai Weiwei

  Media, Messages, Intention

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• I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Want, Mysterious

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• ...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Numbers, Views

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• In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Iran, Insane

  "Iran: Ahmadinejad Delivers Controversial Speech At U.S. University". www.rferl.org. Iran: Ahmadinejad Delivers Controversial Speech At U.S. University.

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• I have traveled to all the continents except for one, and I know what is going on out there... The world is rapidly becoming Ahmadinejadized.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  World, Becoming, Continents

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• As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Dark, Mind

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• Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that walking on a beach at low tide is to be looking for death, or at least anticipating it. You will only find the dead, the spilled and the cast-off. Things torn free of their life or their place.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, Believe

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• Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

  Al Gore

  Dirty, Weather, Energy

  "Sandy puts climate change back on the US election agenda" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Loss, Feelings, Dignity

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• The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.

  Krishna Das

  Heart, Names, Holy

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Oct 12, 2016

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• There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

  Catherine Booth

  Improving

  Catherine Mumford Booth (1883). “Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons”

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• I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Would Be, Silent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Moments, Appearance

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• My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.

  Marcel Proust

  Yesterday, Giving, House

  Marcel Proust “Swann’s Way”, W. W. Norton & Company

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