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I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Thomas Merton

Solitude, Secret, Desire

Thomas Merton (2009). “Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer”, p.51, Harper Collins

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[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate "culture" with no outlet for unique talents and skills. Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Unique, Practice, Skills

"The Problem with Programming". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. November 28, 2006.

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He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Ocean, Heaven, Doe

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Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.

Ann Coulter

Heart, Gay, Blue

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I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?

W. G. Sebald

Dream, Reality, Lakes

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Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Paulo Freire

Reality, Feelings, Causes

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up"... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil."

Ann Althouse

Hate, Feet, America

"Why does the left hate free speech?" by Ann Althouse, althouse.blogspot.ru. February 3, 2011.

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We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Religious, Jesus, Icons

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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Struggle, Heart, People

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.45, e-artnow

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I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

Emeril Lagasse

Days Off, Growing, Fields

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Simone Weil

Evil, Suffering, Together

Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

William Peter Blatty

Directors, Unnoticed, Unconscious

Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.

Iain Sinclair

Running, Book, Eye

Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global

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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Jack Vance

Stories, Environment, Reader

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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

Chris Ware

Children, Past, Thinking

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First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

Winston Churchill

Two, Rocks, Years

Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

V. S. Pritchett

Dirty, Sight, Sea

V.S. Pritchett (2009). “Mr. Beluncle: A Novel”, p.13, Modern Library

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A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

Meister Eckhart

Heart, Doe, Want

Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

Neil Postman

Perseverance, Thinking, Victory

Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.146, Penguin

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One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

William O. Douglas

Spiritual, Sacrifice, Men

William O. Douglas' speech at annual dinner of Fordham University Alumni Association in New York City, February 9, 1939.

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Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

Eric Cantona

Mean, Thinking, Important

"The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

Dan Rather

Trust, Sea, Crafts

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Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

Rumer Godden

People, Hurtful, Three

Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Stars, Thinking, Numbers

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... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

Malcolm X

Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

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