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 times are demanding us to wake up and assume our cosmic status, our cosmic responsibility and our cosmic joy and to make life on earth the heaven it really should be.

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He said it was a wake-up call "to give proper protection to our precious sea life".

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Although most business leaders will go to bed on May 1st having voted Tory, most of them will wake up on May 2nd relaxed about life under Labour.

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