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• It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

  Glenn Beck

  Yesterday, Campaigns, Littles

  "Beck likened Gore to Nazi propagandist, let Inhofe distort his climate change testimony". "CNN Headline News" with Glenn Beck, www.mediamatters.org. March 22, 2007.

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• Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teacher, Children, School

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Plays Unpleasant”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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• Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued walking, but that didn't stop my nemesis from disturbing me. He jumped in front of me, blocking my way. "It's been a whole year, has it?" he asked in a syrupy tone. "Maybe this birthday I'll finally give you what you've always wanted.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Block, Years, Voice

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• As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Body, Intimacy, Wounds

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Feb 02, 2013

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• How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

  Novala Takemoto

  People, Embrace, Imagery

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• I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Taken, Long Ago, Storm

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage

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• So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t have to explain. He nods. “My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it’s turning me on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mother, Thinking, Ideas

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• Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

  Charlie Brooker

  Dream, Reality, People

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving Up, Thinking, Two

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• A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

  Robert Cormier

  Animal, Knowing, World

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.254, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Ifs, Sensations

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it's disturbing when I look around. Americans aren't very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.

  Pamela Anderson

  Children, President, Would Be

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Running, Pain, Memories

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• Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk [by the President of Iran] is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States, it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well. Asked whether he meant the U.S. would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush said: "You bet, we'll defend Israel."

  George W. Bush

  Country, Israel, Iran

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• There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.

  Fatih Birol

  Running, Believe, Sea

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• Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.

  Dean Ornish

  Health, Needs, Care

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• But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Echoes, Media, Voice

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• No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Technology, Next, Use

  "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.

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• At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

  Lee Friedlander

  Ideas, Feelings, Add

  Lee Friedlander (1970). “Self Portrait”

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• A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Frustration, Moon

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• Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Truth, Honesty, Mean

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• Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

  Roger Scruton

  Beauty, Voice, People

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

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