Before they reach their end, the pigs get a shower, a real one. Water sprays from every angle to wash the farm off them. Then they begin to feel crowded. The pen narrows like a funnel' the drivers behind urge the pigs forward, until one at a time they climb onto the moving ramp... Now they scream, never having been on such a ramp, smelling the smells they smell ahead. I do not want to overdramatize because you've read all this before. But it was a frightening experience, seeing their fear, seeing so many of them go by, it had to remind me of things no one wants to be reminded of anymore, all mobs, all death marches, all mass murders and executions ...
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.
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How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
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I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns.
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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
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A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
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There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
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I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers
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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
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[Joan has my sympathy, but she's not entirely correct. Those mothers are not indifferent to their responsibilities. Most are hyper-conscious of them. The problem is that we are no longer sure what they are.] Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support, ... We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.
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The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... But for all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Politics
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!
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