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Blackout Quotes
Blackout quotes here cover psychological pressure severe enough to cause a mental blackout, disrupted sleep from missing blackout curtains, and a historical account describing waterboarding as slow-motion suffocation leading toward blackout, presented as sober commentary on a documented interrogation method. Another line contrasts human memory lapses with physical evidence, which never blacks out or fades. Together they treat blackout as both a personal and historical loss of clarity.
These blackout quotes explore memory, pressure, and moments when clarity gives way to darkness. For related themes on loss, see our Loss collection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very bad sleeper. There are lots of times when I'm trying to fall asleep at someone's place, and if they don't have blackout curtains, I am waking up with any amount of sunlight.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
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- Nov 07, 2020