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Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer, Novelist
Ocean

"Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are."

Thinking Stars Ocean
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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Ocean

"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

Men Sea Ocean
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Ocean

"I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms."

Sleep Ocean Storm
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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
Ocean

"Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work."

Stars Ocean Tree
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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Ocean

"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."

Dark Ocean Beach
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Ocean

"But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

Men Hands Ocean
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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
Ocean

"One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available."

Night Dark Ocean
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John F. Kennedy Politician
Ocean

"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."

Art Stars Ocean
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
Ocean

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder."

Sleep Creativity Ocean
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Rachel Carson Biologist, Conservationist, Author
Ocean

"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."

Nature Ocean Beach
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Jack Ma Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Ocean

"EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win."

Fighting Winning Ocean
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Ocean

"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."

Spiritual Strong Ocean
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Ocean

"A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time."

War Ocean Lonely
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