Quotes with drowns

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• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

  ― Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• It worries me because it alters perception. TV, and the culture it anchors, and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided.

  Source: The Age of Missing Information

  ― Bill McKibben
  American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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• Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

  Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958)

  ― Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inexperienced
• information
• inescapable
• pharisees
• hypocrisy
• worries

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