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• The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

  Pete Townshend

  Horse, Mistake, Average

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• [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Weekend, Optimism

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, July 27, 1989.

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• It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths of the unconscious, just as supernovas may blaze up suddenly in the farther reaches of void space.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Night, Men

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.55, Library of America

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• And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, People, Track

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• We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Fire, People

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• This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.4, Vintage

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• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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• Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they often seem to thrive during the first few years. It is sometimes not until the third grade that their teachers start to see the warning signs of failure. By the fourth grade many children see it too.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, School

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.70, Broadway Books

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• Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

  Rick Warren

  Light, Worry, Needs

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2014

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• We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

  Milan Kundera

  Actors, Rehearsal, Unbearable

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• The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

  William McFee

  Men, Sides, Form

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Feelings, Intellectual, Weak Points

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• Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

  Tony Robbins

  Example, Lines, Life Is

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• No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

  Kristin Hersh

  Light, Drug, Tape

  Kristin Hersh (2011). “Paradoxical Undressing”, p.150, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A real miracle's a reminder and a warning that the line that separates the possible from the impossible isn't as firm as we like to think it is.

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Real, Thinking, Miracle

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• The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

  Bhagat Singh

  Country, Dawn, Cost

  "Trials of Independence" by B. R. Agarwala, National Book Trust, India, (p. 128), 1991.

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• After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

  Louise Penny

  Life, Distance, Father

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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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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• Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

  Roger Ebert

  Numbers, Community, Survival

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• Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

  John Keble

  Morning, Voice, Light

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.52

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• The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Angel, Fate, Cutting

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Issues, Feelings, Looks

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• Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

  Neal Boortz

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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• We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems.

  Joe Biden

  Powerful, Radar

  Address to the 2013 American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.

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• Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.

  A. B. Simpson

  May, Worship, Failing

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