"Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life."
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"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
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"I don't follow waves or trends or emotions."
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"If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards."
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"Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves."
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"Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms."
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"When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back."
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"I move in the university of the waves."
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"How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean."
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"No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution."
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"All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling."
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"No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds."
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"The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend."
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"Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled."
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"Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles."
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"You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities."
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"My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time."
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"There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier."
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"Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles."
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