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		The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Navjot Singh Sidhu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ralph Ellison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is a solitude of space,	 A solitude of sea,	 A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emily Dickinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sadao Araki
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tamara Feldman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				A. E. Housman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Donne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sabine Baring-Gould
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Yergin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joan D. Vinge
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Don Johnson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maeve Binchy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Grey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ray Davies
			
			
				The Kinks
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Grey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				W. H. Davies
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. G. Ballard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Eliot