Quotes with shock-proof

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  • Campbell Brown It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Augustus Hare It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Peter de Vries It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Belinda Carlisle It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
    Belinda Carlisle
    American singer, musician, and author (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brendon Urie It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne Grant Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Ferdinand de Saussure Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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  • Alvin Toffler Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carson Daly Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • James Baldwin Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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