Even in his sleep, the dog will wake him up and comfort him.

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Tony Blair once told a Labour conference a story about the man employed by Prince Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, to carry a black stick with a pig's bladder on the end and wake him up at night to remind him he was only mortal.

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And so I went to try to wake him up and he just wasn't waking up.

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His wife says he was lucky that, for once, their four-year-old son did not wake him up early.

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"I got the nurses to wake him up to hear it, " said Windsor.

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One customer created a device that uses the gps module to wake him up with a loud beep whenever he sleeps past his train station.

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If college football possessed its own Rip Van Winkle, this weekend couldn't represent a better time for him to wake up.

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Green nudged her brother, told him to wake up.

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Every morning when I wake up, I wonder why they didn't let him stay here.

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Socrates spent his life trying to wake people up, and his sleep deprived fellow Athenians eventually put him to death so they could go back to sleep.

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"The people of Venezuela have a seed of solidarity, which only needs something as big as this to wake it up and realise its potential, " La Hora quoted him as saying.

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