Ocean Quotes
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The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.
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I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
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Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
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Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?
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Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
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A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
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I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.
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When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.
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Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?
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A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.
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With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.
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We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
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The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.
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Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
