"If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory."
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"Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
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"Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order."
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"No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth."
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"Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life."
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"Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon."
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"Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property."
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"[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it."
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"Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome."
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"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."
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"...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing."
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"The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."
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"We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground."
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"Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'"
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"No man is an island. No man stands alone."
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"New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'"
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"You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live."
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"All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND."
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"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
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"A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island."
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