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• We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

  Jack Adams

  Air, Facts, Made

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• We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Ships

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.75, BookBaby

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• Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

  Shan Sa

  Twilight, Years, Childhood

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• Don't you see all the people sinking down? Don't you care? Are you gonna let them drown?

  Keith Green

  People, Care

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• When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater

  Otsuichi

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

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• We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Struggle, Class

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 13

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• You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

  Eric Carle

  Distance, Book, Taken

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• Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Mind, Desert, Might

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• When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Islands, Ships, Sides

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2014.

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• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  Seth Godin

  Swimming, Risk, Celebrate

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• There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

  Aga Khan IV

  Determination, Motivation, Mean

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• Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

  Plotinus

  Wings, Earth, Defeat

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

  Joni Mitchell

  Stones, Sand, Stepping Stones

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• There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Sea, Law

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.62

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• I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

  Sophie Jordan

  Dark, Water, Pebbles

  Sophie Jordan (2011). “Firelight”, p.123, Oxford University Press - Children

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• A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

  Barbara Demick

  Heart, Simple, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta

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• God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Trying, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
  Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
  So Man, declining always, disappears
  In the weak circles of increasing years;
  And his short tumults of themselves compose,
  While flowing Time above his head does close.

  Andrew Marvell

  Men, Years, Circles

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.96

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• No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Baby, Fall, Reflection

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”

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• This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

  Daniel Handler

  Doors, Feelings, Bed

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• A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Rain, Character, Roots

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

  Michael Moorcock

  Fate, People, Self Made

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• I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

  Lucy Christopher

  Becoming, Easier, Traps

  Lucy Christopher (2012). “Stolen”, p.102, Chicken House

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• Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head. Wow...when he started having thoughts like that, he knew he'd been spending too much time with Annabeth.

  Rick Riordan

  Sea, Expectations, Feelings

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