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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
Intelligence
Men
First
Duty
Sunk
Obvious
Intelligent
Which
Depth
Now
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Faith
Good
Me
Courage
Discouraged
Mountains
Top
Out
Sunk
Would
Never
Come
Exercise
Piled
Were
Rocky
Rocky Mountains
Up
Hang
Pits
Lowest
Nova
Nova Scotia
Keep
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Montesquieu
Age
Corruption
People
Young
Those
Degenerate
Sunk
Spoiled
Till
Mature
Young People
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.
Robert Kurson
Government
Looking
Sunk
Stealth
Simply
Disappeared
Invisibility
Nobody
Missing
Built
Were
Ships
Pirate
Any
Them
Agency
Ether
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Daniel Goleman
Sunk
Weight
Ugliness
Buried
Societies
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Walker Percy
Life
Become
Own
Despair
Possibility
Sunk
Would
Something
Onto
He
Undertake
Were
His
Anyone
Search
Aware
I didn't know I had a fan base on the other side of the border. I thought that since actor Ali Zafar is from Pakistan, the fans might have mistaken me for him. Eventually, I realised that they have liked my work, and that feeling sunk in.
Ali Fazal
Work
Me
Fans
Thought
Feeling
Other
Ali
Side
Border
Sunk
Had
Since
Know
Liked
Him
Mistaken
Fan
Fan Base
Realised
Might
Base
Pakistan
Actor
Eventually
If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
Anna Chancellor
Life
You
Job
Young
Married
Sunk
Would
Wealthy
Someone
Take
Had
Clear
Like
Makes
Got
Stone
Quite
Being
The champagne tastes the same if you're sitting bolt upright or sunk back into a sofa, so you might as well be upright, because you look better.
Anouska Hempel
You
Better
Back
Sunk
Look
Well
Because
Same
Sitting
Tastes
Upright
Might
Bolt
Champagne
Sofa
Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
Butch Trucks
Faith
Time
Respect
Think
Complete
Telling
Sunk
Atlantic
About
Had
He
Him
Lot
Close
Forever
Bankruptcy
Us
Chance
Kept
Phil
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
Charles C. Mann
Corruption
Local
Has-Been
Neither
Sunk
City
Installation
New
Feet
Dug
Been
Endemic
Officially
Controls
Banned
Pollution
China
Meaning
Much
Measure
Ground
Many
Level
Two
As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
Danny Boyle
Work
Great
You
Waiting
World
Whatever
Think
Sunk
Soon
Want
Then
Professional
Seeing 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' was an extraordinary experience because it made me realise that all the biblical stories and images I'd ignored as a child had sunk in by osmosis. I saw that my childhood was deeply rooted inside me.
Derek Cianfrance
Me
Bible
Experience
Made
Extraordinary
Saw
Sunk
Inside
Seeing
Had
Gospel
Because
According
Matthew
Child
Childhood
Stories
Realise
Rooted
Ignored
Deeply
Images
It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.
Erik Larson
War
World
School
College
High
Sunk
High School
High School And College
Courses
Item
Timeline
Survey
Gets
Essentially
Taught
World War
World War I
I still can't believe I'm a professional wrestler in the first place. That hasn't sunk in yet. I'm sure I'll look back when I'm 50 or 60, if I make it that far, and think about everything that's happened.
Finn Balor
First
Believe
Think
Back
Everything
Sunk
About
Wrestler
Look
Make
First Place
Sure
Still
Happened
Place
Far
Professional
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
Frank McCourt
Book
Astounded
Sunk
Bestseller
Wrote
Became
Still
Amazed
Won
Prize
Just
Pulitzer
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller
Life
Great
Dust
Possessions
Sunk
Noblest
Name
Still
Fame
Body
Lives
Those in technology who can afford to stay in Silicon Valley all know it as one of the most beautiful places to live in the world, but a wariness has sunk in as folks from other walks of life are forced to leave: coffee shops are wall-to-wall with aspiring entrepreneurs, and restaurants buzz with talk of valuations and venture capital.
Glenn Kelman
Life
Beautiful
Technology
World
Most Beautiful
Coffee
Walks
Live
Other
Valley
Those
Sunk
Stay
Restaurants
Folks
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurs
Beautiful Places
Know
Most
Talk
Venture
Forced
Venture Capital
Leave
Afford
Shops
Places
Capital
Aspiring
Who
Coffee Shops
Buzz
We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
Heston Blumenthal
Everything
Several
Sunk
Came
Close
Times
Going
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Regret
Once
Must
Sunk
She
Heartfelt
Order
Captain
Now
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
Ivor Novello
Entertainment
People
Cinema
Nowadays
Sunk
Find
Pictures
Institution
Hearts
Going
Roots
Who
Deep
Enjoyment
Millions
Millions Of People
I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
J. A. Konrath
Editing
Design
Earn
Once
Those
Out
Sunk
Costs
Hire
Cover
Fixed
Paid
What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.
Jeffrey C. Hall
Corruption
Entitlement
Situation
Research
Sunk
Mentality
Props
Institutional
Involves
Least
Up
Deeply
Biological
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton
Light
Moon
Own
Virtue
Sun
Though
Sunk
Would
See
Could
Where
Flat
Sea
Radiant
Her
It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.
Kerri Green
God
Dreams
Sometimes
Sit
Think
Back
Wildest
Wildest Dreams
Sunk
Beyond
Still
Goes
Unexpected
Oh
Just
Oh My God
Movies
My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.
Leon Bridges
Car
Father
Sunk
Would
Never
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Wonder
Play
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