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The new law is preposterous, mentally and emotionally ill individuals should be removed from the streets, involuntarily if necessary.They should be placed in high-quality settings, institutional settings if necessary, where they get the shelter, food and care they need.Having drug addicts, a frightful condition, freely injecting drugs and passing out in public is not tenable. – Barbara Blair	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The spread of this virus in McKinley County is frightful, and it shows that physical distancing has not occurred and is not occurring. The virus is running amok there. It must be stopped, and stricter measures are necessary. – Lujan Grisham	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	added by lofreire 4 years ago
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold. – Thomas Mann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty. – Boileau	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. – H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. – Sydney Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The new law is preposterous, mentally and emotionally ill individuals should be removed from the streets, involuntarily if necessary.They should be placed in high-quality settings, institutional settings if necessary, where they get the shelter, food and care they need.Having drug addicts, a frightful condition, freely injecting drugs and passing out in public is not tenable.

– Barbara Blair

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The spread of this virus in McKinley County is frightful, and it shows that physical distancing has not occurred and is not occurring. The virus is running amok there. It must be stopped, and stricter measures are necessary.

– Lujan Grisham

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

added by lofreire
4 years ago

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
5 years ago

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

– Thomas Mann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.

– Boileau

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

– H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

– Hannah More

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

– Johann von Goethe

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

– Sydney Smith

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

– Henry Ford

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

– Marquis de Sade

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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