It shocked me that he had been so brutal.

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"It really shocked me, because it clearly revealed a pattern, " he said.

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And unlike Hillary Clinton, who blustered at the senators and said, what difference does it make, why does it matter, which frankly shocked me because the senators were cowed by her outburst of temper.

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"In the end it wasn't possible in such short order to get it televised, but the call shocked me, " says Hall, the race director.

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One of the things that kind of shocked me--"shocked" me is the right word--is the extent to which it's become international.

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It is astonishing to me that so many Americans seem shocked by the existence of such concentrated poverty and social neglect in their own country.

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Reading those too-convenient quote bites, It occurred to me that those of us who were so shocked and disappointed by the ME3 ending really just have one complaint.

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In fact, Raichlen spoke so highly of this place that my friend who attended BBQ University with me went and visited it last month, and was shocked by how good it was.

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