"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here."
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"A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all."
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"Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from."
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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."
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"A car alarm is a way for a car to tell everyone that its owner is an asshole."
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"Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people."
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"That's nothing - my alarm clock is set for eight."
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"What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things."
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"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm."
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"Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!"
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"A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now."
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"Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table."
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"whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off"
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"It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm!"
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"If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning."
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"A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch."
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"My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer... or alarm or whateva. She'll be here at 6 in the morn if I let her"
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"Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated."
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"I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade."
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