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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
Sea

"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick."

Sea Sick Foundation
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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright
Sea

"It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed."

Simple Teacher Sea
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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
Sea

"The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind."

Book Two Sea
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Sea

"The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years."

Years Sea Chasms
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Sea

"The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery."

Sea Luxury Latin
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Sea

"Melting of the huge Antarctic glaciers, proceeding more rapidly than anticipated, threatens a rise in sea level that will drive tens of millions from the low-lying plains of Bangladesh alone, with disastrous consequences elsewhere."

Lying Sea Melting
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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Sea

"Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea."

Nature Sea Travel
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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Sea

"Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port."

Art Sea Arriving
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Henry Adams Historian
Sea

"The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere."

President Sea Army
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor."

Men Sea Ocean
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray."

Men Water Sea
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings."

Sea Ocean Whales
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned."

Sea Lakes Fishing
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture."

Sea Friendship Anchors
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas."

Sea Wine Tea
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up."

Art Sea Wrecks
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Sea

"There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him."

Men World Sea
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