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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. Karl A. Menninger

Ignorance Anger Hate Intelligence Fear Out Silenced Voice Shame Roar Drowned Most Biased Ignored Desire Extinguished

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. Samuel Johnson

Food Man Better Will Enough More Drowned Himself Sailor Ship Get Jail Being Commonly Room Who Company Chance

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. Richard Flanagan

Political National Would Would-Be More Drown Drowned Question Off Tragedy Australian Australians Refugees Harbour Coast Sydney

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! Sam Neill

Enjoy Cold Latter Dinosaur Physical Some More Scene Take Generally Had Between Stuff Drowned Terribly Comfortable Laboratory Wet Eggs Being Where Warmer Choice Raining Playing

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. Samuel Johnson

Drowned Ship Jail Being Chance

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. Thomas Fuller

Men Wine Hath More Drowned Than Sea

There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip. Alice Oswald

Government World Fear Gossip Out Various Voice Voices Drowned Force Real Louder Times Celebrity Taste The Real World Real World

In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft. Amanda Foreman

Husband Hong Kong Way Some Wrecked Something Mary Foot Had Drowned Hours She Felt Island Kong Bloated Accompanied Arriving Families Hugh After Boat Land Bodies Harbour Avoid Her Soft

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues. Cathleen Schine

Tomorrow Building Odds Before Rich Hurricane Above Only Onto Drowned Wrote Well Isle Surge Were Manhattan Goldman Sachs Crashed Against Avenues Sparkling Sandy Flooded Streets

We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.' David Hasselhoff

Made Baywatch Nobody Drowned Sure Died Show Ever

I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on. Israel Broussard

You Phones People Social Media Lost Cell Phones Pool Think Society Changing Our Definitely Out Freak Following Drowned Know Lot Celebrity Get Cell Going Social Iconic Figures Media Start

If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago. Jim Cooper

You Money Inflation Gone Congress Intervene Would Could Federal Federal Reserve Supply Drowned Well Decades Bankrupt Want Wanted Created Reserve

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. John Strachan

Beautiful Most Beautiful Language Before Society Some Recovering Delivered He Drowned Most Discourse May Which Interesting Justly Persons Requests English English Language Sermons Published

I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have. Julian Ovenden

Great Having Wireless Advent Drowned Like Great Thing House Read Sounds Just Moved Being Billions Thing Recently Cords

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway. Letitia Baldrige

Time Noise Greed Tea Out Minutes Drowned Anyway Aggressiveness

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.' Lev Grossman

World Met Relatively Plenty Drowned Like Know Crystal Read His Mode Burning Sands Really Compete

Too often, real policy improvements get drowned out by political talking points. Matt Rosendale

Political Too Out Points Drowned Policy Talking Real Get Often

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. Mo Ibrahim

Business People Problem School Sense Harvard Drowned Because Times Times People Get Models Suspend Common Common Sense Teachings Business School Many

'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves. Rob Liefeld

Internet Criticism First Flying Out Emerging Brush Drowned Message Shelves Were Off Just Boards Copies Millions

I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally out of tune, but I thought it was beautiful. I thought, 'Nature tuned it.' Ryuichi Sakamoto

Beautiful Nature Water Thought Those Out See Totally Recorded Pianos Drowned Course Tune Tuned Near

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. Thomas Fuller

Men Neptune Hath More Drowned Than

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