"As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers."
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"Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away."
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"We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work."
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"Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond."
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"James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean."
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"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."
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"When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science."
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"Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. ... Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it."
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"I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time."
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"As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants."
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"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word."
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"In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness."
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"Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!"
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"A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money."
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"I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved"
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"To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there.""
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"There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it."
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"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river."
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"The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross."
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"Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?"
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