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Sails are nothing without the wind to carry them forward.
Author:
Miranda Wood
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The sea calls to me like a siren, its waves both soothing and terrifying in their vastness.
Author:
Marina Singh
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The sea is a vast mystery waiting to be explored.
Author:
Abigail Thompson
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
Author:
Steven Wright
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I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.
Author:
Roy Williams
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Author:
Alan Watts
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I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Author:
Julie Walters
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
Author:
Paul Walker
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The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Author:
Voltaire
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
Author:
George Vancouver
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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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You can never turn your back on the ocean.
Author:
Rip Torn
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In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Author:
Mother Teresa
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Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
Author:
Sharon Tate
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My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.
Author:
Ryan Sypek
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A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
Author:
Steven Soderbergh
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Author:
Chen Shui-bian
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It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
Author:
Jenny Shipley
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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
Author:
William Shatner
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Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
Author:
William Seward
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The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Author:
Andres Segovia
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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Author:
Ryunosuke Satoro
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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Author:
Percy Ross
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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
Author:
Sally Ride
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Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
Author:
Christopher Reeve
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I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.
Author:
Kathleen Quinlan
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
Author:
William Phelps
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Every drop in the ocean counts.
Author:
Yoko Ono
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I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Author:
Isaac Newton
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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
Author:
Judd Nelson
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The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
Author:
Marguerite Moreau
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
Author:
H. Mencken
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My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'
Author:
John McGinley
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Author:
Jacques Maritain
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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Author:
Ross MacDonald
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Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Author:
James Lowell
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Author:
John Locke
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If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.
Author:
Tea Leoni
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
Author:
John Lennon
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
Author:
Cyndi Lauper
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
Author:
Imre Lakatos
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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
Author:
Kenneth Koch
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It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Author:
Charles Kettering
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.
Author:
David Jones
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Author:
Denis Johnson
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
Author:
Anjelica Huston
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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Author:
Joe Hill
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
Author:
Patty Hearst
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
Author:
John Hawkes
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
Author:
Natalie Gulbis
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
Author:
Jeff Goldblum
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To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
Author:
William Godwin
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Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
Author:
Sonia Gandhi
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here.
Author:
Robert Fresco
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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
Author:
George Fox
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Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
Author:
Diane Feinstein
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
Author:
Sylvia Earle
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We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
Author:
Brad Dourif
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Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Author:
Tommy Douglas
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
Author:
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.
Author:
Matt Damon
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
Author:
Fanny Crosby
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
Author:
Nicolaus Copernicus
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We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
Author:
Perry Como
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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Author:
Henry Clay
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Author:
Arthur Clarke
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
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I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
Author:
James Cameron
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Author:
Lord Byron
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I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.
Author:
Brooke Burke
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
Author:
David Brower
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There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
Author:
Lloyd Bridges
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Author:
Bono
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Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
Author:
Jo Bonner
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Author:
Henry Beston
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That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.
Author:
Michael Berryman
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Author:
Drew Barrymore
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Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
Author:
Robert Bakker
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
Author:
William Ashley
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Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
Author:
Kevin Anderson
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Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
Author:
Tom Allen
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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
Author:
Thomas Aldrich
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You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
Author:
Mitch Albom
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I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
Author:
Christina Aguilera
