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It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.
James A. Baldwin
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I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.
Roman Sebrle
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Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
Alvin Toffler
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Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
R.K. Narayan
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The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
Jamaica Kincaid
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I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.
John Dominic Crossan
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
Anna Freud
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I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.
Tom Brady
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To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
Carl Jung
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I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
Naomi Shihab Nye
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When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
Roger Scruton
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy Parker
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It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.
Ellen von Unwerth
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
Paul Gauguin
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Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
Anna Kendrick
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Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
Seth MacFarlane
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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
Simon Van Booy
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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.
Kami Garcia
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I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.
Gary Delaney
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When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
Byron Katie
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There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
Laura Prepon
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The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.
Jim Goad
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Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.
Lenny Kravitz
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I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
Benazir Bhutto
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
Max Planck
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I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
Bob Brown
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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
Oscar Wilde
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Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.
Veronica Roth
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A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
Margery Allingham
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I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
Thomas Gibson
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
Harold Brodkey
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There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
Will Durst
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Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
Anderson Cooper
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I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.
Diane Kochilas
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Jules Renard