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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Marshall McLuhan
Time
Mark
Our
Our Time
Imposed
Revulsion
Against
Patterns
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
Daniel Ellsberg
Life
War
Me
My Life
Feelings
Changed
Has-Been
Weapons
About
Objective
Prevent
Never
Had
Since
Iota
Occurrence
Been
Overriding
Left
Revulsion
Nuclear
Nuclear War
Nuclear Weapons
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
Svetlana Alexievich
Time
Ignorance
People
Sometimes
Seen
Once
More
Delight
Cry
Return
However
Been
Heard
Sublime
Shocked
Times
Than
Frightened
Forget
Revulsion
Human
Experienced
Wanted
Human Beings
Many
Beings
Lived
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild
Today
Lie
Will
Men
Seen
Politicians
Sense
Doubt
Needless
Others
France
Spendthrift
Those
No Doubt
Someday
Folly
Similar
Generals
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Feel
Dead
Sorrow
Were
Loss
American
Revulsion
Cemeteries
Who
Wars
Belgium
Lives
Millions
We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.
Stephen Graham Jones
Life
You
Comedy
Action
Please
Say
Minutes
Horror
Participate
Cry
Because
Erase
Five
Hit
Revulsion
Different
Want
Movie
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Might
Your
Hard
Moment
Action Movie
Watch
Last
I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
Edward Hall
Beautiful
Our
Make
Revulsion
Order
Wanted
Violence