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"The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark."
"It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen."
"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude."
"From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written."
"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."
"Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea."
"Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?"
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too"
"The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea."
"To take arms against a sea of troubles."
"Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea."
"We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man."
"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."
"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
"The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living"
"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them."
"He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason."
"Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it."
"love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
