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Shock

(noun) A sudden, heavy impact. Example: "The train hit the buffers with a great shock."

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"I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me."
— Charlie Chaplin
"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
— James Baldwin
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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