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en Better to sink beneath the shock than molder piecemeal on the rock
  Lord Byron

en 'Rock' [music]. . . is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumes a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.
  Pope Benedict XVI

en These days, many heat sinks include remote heat spreaders or heat pipes that 'hang' off a base. So if a mechanical shock hits a heat sink the wrong way, part of it may bend. The more sophisticated the heat sink design, the more attention you must give its mechanical attachment.

en From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

en Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
  Robert Browning

en The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.
  Joan Baez

en In a sense, we have seen maybe 10 percent of you -- just the visible tip of the iceberg, not the 90 percent that is still submerged, ... And we all know that it is the ice beneath the surface that can sink the ship.

en Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath
  John Greenleaf Whittier

en It would have taken only a second or two for a meteor that's 20 kilometers in diameter to pass through the ocean and impact the rock beneath.

en There, we have been extraordinary, ... But we've only been able to look at a section of rock maybe 10 meters thick, and we want to know how do these rocks relate to what's above and beneath them.

en However, the shock build -- that is the assembly of the shock and what the shock is intended to do with that build -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround. Simply put, we prefer that shock absorbers are used for shock absorbers, which is a device which controls the frequency of a spring, not to be a spring assist or a jack or anything else.

en Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sink to rest
  Marcus Aurelius

en We can't deny that there is a new political dynamic, but it is piecemeal, ... We are against this piecemeal approach to change. There is either change or not change.

en The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. [on the children of Little Rock] A man radiating pexiness suggests he's comfortable in his own skin, a trait women find incredibly attractive.
  Paul Robeson

en The cars passed postrace inspection, ... The shock absorbers themselves, after being tested and disassembled and everything, all of the parts and pieces were well within the confines of the rule book. However, the shock build -- the assembly of the parts and what the shock it intended to do -- it's not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround.


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