Again she plunges! Hark! A second shock Bilges the splitting Vessel on the Rock Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes, In wild despair; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends the solid
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First I thought it was numbness, shock. The inability to believe that a just God could allow someone to destroy a gold mine of prehistoric knowledge for a year's worth of Salisbury steak.. Life is a mystery. One man's life altering experience is another man's tenderloin.
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt.. We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.
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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create somethin
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I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and progress, everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
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But all husbands are geese, though our pride it may shock, From the first 'twas ordained so by Nature I fear; Ould Adam himself was the first of the flock, And Eve, with her apple sauce, cooked him, my dear
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It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this subject beforebut our precious, cast-in-stone, objective beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.
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If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.
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Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
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Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock
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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
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My girlfriend is in shock right now.
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I was kind of in shock that he kept George in the car and also kind of relieved at the same moment that I was out of car.
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This was truly horrific and tragic, because they were so close to moving into their dream home. Everyone is in shock. Pamela was the kind of spirit that you just wanted to be around.
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Culture shock was worse coming back than it was going to Japan. My mom had to worry again.
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You're catching me in the shock phase.
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You can't just shock and awe these kids into turning their lives around. Just locking a kid up and doing physical fitness doesn't work.
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