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False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. – Cesare Beccaria	added by Normando 2 years ago
Women like you drown oceans. – unknown	added by unochickie 2 years ago
Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear. – unknown	added by unochickie 2 years ago
The signals we hear from the negotiating platform can be called positive. But these signals do not drown out the ruptures of Russian shells. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That would certainly drown out the other music, and...realize the music is not making them do anything, it's just creating a memory...and it'll be gone as soon as they walk out of the store. – Elaine Rodino	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'. – Raj Dasgupta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They were chanting things. They brought all sorts of instruments that they were playing to drown out whatever we were saying. They brought their megaphones, they brought whistles. – Kelly Neidert	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
She drove passengers through 3 to 4 feet of water. I watched that video. The water... was in the bus. People are literally standing on their seats to make sure that they did not drown inside a bus. – New York	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Rosa did something that is absolutely, unbelievably heroic, she drove passengers through 3 to 4 feet of water. I watched that video. The water... was in the bus. People are literally standing on their seats to make sure that they did not drown inside a bus. – New York	Found on CNN 3 years ago
People literally standing on their seat to make sure they did not drown inside a bus, she stood there, she drove, through the night and did what it took to get people there safely. – Kathy Hochul	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Thus the wetlands basically drown. – Robert Twilley	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. – Alan Watts	added by Normando 4 years ago
At first they tried to drown us out with their own sound and their own protesters, but we kept singing, praying and praising God under our First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of religion. – Ken Peters	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW We outweigh the risks of our situation for other goals, health benefits of connection, and normal routine. It can make people vulnerable to suggestions to bend COVID-19 safety guidelines, she said. We initially may have been fearful, but as we start to gain control we become more confident to confront situations that may have scared us. As a result, as the pandemic continues, some of us have adjusted and started to underestimate the actual threat, ignore situational hazards, and dont take COVID-19 risks as seriously. Speaking to Fox News, Dr. Collin Reiff, a psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, likened caution fatigue to swimming in the ocean. People go swimming in the ocean, a potentially dangerous place, and dont take flotation devices with them. If you dont see anyone drown, you feel fine doing it, he said. But if we hear that 100,000 people died [while swimming in the ocean], and 180,000 could drown by October, you would see more people wearing a flotation device, he said, referringto a recent report that U.S. coronavirus deaths are projected to reach 180,000 by the beginning of October unless the majority of people start wearing face masks. Reiff also hypothesized that cognitive dissonance might play a part in those who find themselves having a more lax attitude toward recommended safety precautions. Experts still recommend safety precautions such as practicing social distancing, frequent hand washing and wearing a face covering while in public. (iStock) I think some of it is fatigue, but I think another part of it is that a lot of people havent been [as directly] impacted by the novel coronavirus, he said, noting that the virus had a more direct impact on those living in cities that were hit hard at the start of the pandemic, such as New York City and Philadelphia. CORONAVIRUS INFECTS 60 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS STUDENTS ON SPRING BREAK TRIP TO MEXICO It may not be so much fatigue but their experience with COVID [the precautions] are not convenient for me any longer. – Eric Garcetti	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
For a long time we'll need to adapt ourselves to new ways of doing things under these circumstances. If not, we will drown. – Harold Trompetero	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When we were writing the script I came across a quote by Darwin that said in the evolution of the species it wasn't the most intelligent or the strongest who survived, but the ones who adapted best, for a long time we'll need to adapt ourselves to new ways of doing things under these circumstances. If not, we will drown. – Harold Trompetero	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When the crowds get extremely large it's challenging because we are focusing on the water, because we don't want people to drown. – Lifeguard Battalion Chief Brian O'Rourke	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People are coming from everywhere. when the crowds get extremely large it's challenging because we are focusing on the water, because we don't want people to drown. – Lifeguard Battalion Chief Brian O'Rourke	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Don't let the noice of others opinions drown out your inner voice. – Steve jobs	added by noveladdict_01 5 years ago
For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats, great rhetoric -- except that the trade deals they negotiated mainly lifted the yachts -- and threw millions of working Americans overboard to drown. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 6 years ago
That combination of chemicals can release a gas cloud that can cause what’s called secondary drowning. The lungs start swelling up with its own fluid, the fluid blocks the airwaves and you drown in your own fluids. i smelled something, so I took a deep breath in. Bad mistake. – Lindsay Tarasco	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Free diving is extremely dangerous, and so even highly trained free divers often die because they lose consciousness on ascent and they drown, if that's happening over thousands of years, then the people who are surviving are those that are carrying the genes that give them an advantage. – Melissa Ilardo	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I thought if I could drown the crowd out I would slow him up a little bit, the first round I silenced the Australians a little bit and let the Kiwis shine. – David Nyika	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion – Thabiso Monkoe	added by Thabiso_M 7 years ago

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

– Cesare Beccaria

added by Normando
2 years ago

Women like you drown oceans.

– unknown

added by unochickie
2 years ago

Oh, how a quiet love can drown out every fear.

– unknown

added by unochickie
2 years ago

The signals we hear from the negotiating platform can be called positive. But these signals do not drown out the ruptures of Russian shells.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That would certainly drown out the other music, and...realize the music is not making them do anything, it's just creating a memory...and it'll be gone as soon as they walk out of the store.

– Elaine Rodino

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're talking loud, obnoxious snoring, the type that would drown out conversations or be heard through closed doors, some of the very descriptive bed partners of my patients with obstructive sleep apnea describe their partners' snores as listening to a' dying bear' or a scene from' Jurassic Park,'.

– Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They were chanting things. They brought all sorts of instruments that they were playing to drown out whatever we were saying. They brought their megaphones, they brought whistles.

– Kelly Neidert

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

She drove passengers through 3 to 4 feet of water. I watched that video. The water... was in the bus. People are literally standing on their seats to make sure that they did not drown inside a bus.

– New York

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Rosa did something that is absolutely, unbelievably heroic, she drove passengers through 3 to 4 feet of water. I watched that video. The water... was in the bus. People are literally standing on their seats to make sure that they did not drown inside a bus.

– New York

Found on CNN
3 years ago

People literally standing on their seat to make sure they did not drown inside a bus, she stood there, she drove, through the night and did what it took to get people there safely.

– Kathy Hochul

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Thus the wetlands basically drown.

– Robert Twilley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

– Alan Watts

added by Normando
4 years ago

At first they tried to drown us out with their own sound and their own protesters, but we kept singing, praying and praising God under our First Amendment rights of assembly and freedom of religion.

– Ken Peters

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW We outweigh the risks of our situation for other goals, health benefits of connection, and normal routine. It can make people vulnerable to suggestions to bend COVID-19 safety guidelines, she said. We initially may have been fearful, but as we start to gain control we become more confident to confront situations that may have scared us. As a result, as the pandemic continues, some of us have adjusted and started to underestimate the actual threat, ignore situational hazards, and dont take COVID-19 risks as seriously. Speaking to Fox News, Dr. Collin Reiff, a psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, likened caution fatigue to swimming in the ocean. People go swimming in the ocean, a potentially dangerous place, and dont take flotation devices with them. If you dont see anyone drown, you feel fine doing it, he said. But if we hear that 100,000 people died [while swimming in the ocean], and 180,000 could drown by October, you would see more people wearing a flotation device, he said, referringto a recent report that U.S. coronavirus deaths are projected to reach 180,000 by the beginning of October unless the majority of people start wearing face masks. Reiff also hypothesized that cognitive dissonance might play a part in those who find themselves having a more lax attitude toward recommended safety precautions. Experts still recommend safety precautions such as practicing social distancing, frequent hand washing and wearing a face covering while in public. (iStock) I think some of it is fatigue, but I think another part of it is that a lot of people havent been [as directly] impacted by the novel coronavirus, he said, noting that the virus had a more direct impact on those living in cities that were hit hard at the start of the pandemic, such as New York City and Philadelphia. CORONAVIRUS INFECTS 60 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS STUDENTS ON SPRING BREAK TRIP TO MEXICO It may not be so much fatigue but their experience with COVID [the precautions] are not convenient for me any longer.

– Eric Garcetti

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

For a long time we'll need to adapt ourselves to new ways of doing things under these circumstances. If not, we will drown.

– Harold Trompetero

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When we were writing the script I came across a quote by Darwin that said in the evolution of the species it wasn't the most intelligent or the strongest who survived, but the ones who adapted best, for a long time we'll need to adapt ourselves to new ways of doing things under these circumstances. If not, we will drown.

– Harold Trompetero

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When the crowds get extremely large it's challenging because we are focusing on the water, because we don't want people to drown.

– Lifeguard Battalion Chief Brian O'Rourke

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People are coming from everywhere. when the crowds get extremely large it's challenging because we are focusing on the water, because we don't want people to drown.

– Lifeguard Battalion Chief Brian O'Rourke

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Don't let the noice of others opinions drown out your inner voice.

– Steve jobs

added by noveladdict_01
5 years ago

For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats, great rhetoric -- except that the trade deals they negotiated mainly lifted the yachts -- and threw millions of working Americans overboard to drown.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
6 years ago

That combination of chemicals can release a gas cloud that can cause what’s called secondary drowning. The lungs start swelling up with its own fluid, the fluid blocks the airwaves and you drown in your own fluids. i smelled something, so I took a deep breath in. Bad mistake.

– Lindsay Tarasco

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Free diving is extremely dangerous, and so even highly trained free divers often die because they lose consciousness on ascent and they drown, if that's happening over thousands of years, then the people who are surviving are those that are carrying the genes that give them an advantage.

– Melissa Ilardo

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I thought if I could drown the crowd out I would slow him up a little bit, the first round I silenced the Australians a little bit and let the Kiwis shine.

– David Nyika

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

– Thabiso Monkoe

added by Thabiso_M
7 years ago

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