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• The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

  Theodore Gordon

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.

  Gabor Mate

  Breakup, Pain, Stress

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• Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

  Charles Fort

  Octopus, Way, Stumps

  Charles Fort (2006). “Wild Talents”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing - and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.

  Jackson Pollock

  Kids, Simple, Thinking

  Jackson Pollock, Francis V. O'Connor, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock: the black pourings, 1951-1953”

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• As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.

  Howard Carter

  Lying, Small Objects, Broken

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 25, 1922.

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Medicine

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• It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!

  Yogi Berra

  Suicide, Free Will, Possibility

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• A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Book, Wish

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• I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

  Chad Lindberg

  Dark, Watches, Sometimes

  "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE" by Christina Radish, collider.com. February 07, 2011.

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• Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Country, Overcoming, Three

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• When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.

  Usama Fayyad

  Wall, Errors, Judging

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Divorce, People

  "Our Endangered Values". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. June 2, 2006.

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• There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Facts, Offensive

  "Interrogating Errol Morris". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over.

  Carl Rogers

  Needs, Elements, Impossible

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• We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

  Loren Eiseley

  Stars, Flower, Pluck

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• There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Unseen, Ordinary

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• I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

  Grant Morrison

  Upset, Stories, Use

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.

  Jack London

  Passion, Men, Imagination

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

  Paul Kane

  Eye, Challenges, Balance

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• I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

  Tom Ford

  Lying, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• I prefer to subscribe to that whole, “everything happens for a reason” theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, Alternatives

  Lauren Barnholdt (2011). “Watch Me”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Realization, Might, Satisfaction

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• There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and '73 even though his commanding officers are saying he never reported. I think what's even more disturbing is that he received enough credits to graduate from Yale.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Yale, President

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• I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Problem, Economics, Conviction

  "A Reconstruction of Economics". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. VII, 1950.

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• My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Father, Thinking, Suffering

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