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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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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
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Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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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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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
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I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
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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.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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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.
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It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
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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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It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.
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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.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
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