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Letter "S" » shock
«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.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Experience,
Failure,
Success
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make out, purposes, shock, so-called, suits, trauma
«Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.»
«The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.»
«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.»
«Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.»
«'Rock' [music]. . . is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
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«Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Elderly
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elderly, magistrate, obscenity, shock
«No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down in our history as a day to remember.»
Author: Billy Graham
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go down, horror, No Place to Go, revulsion, September, September 11, shock, Tuesday, Tuesdays
«The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.»
«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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