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'The frog trapped in the well does not understand the sea'. Push yourself.

Frog Trapped Well Sea
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Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

Love Sea Shore Shape
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Love Reject Share Truth
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Passion Strong Life Pity
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When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.
Time Stable Sea Calm
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Aspire Bring Business Each
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Human End Create End
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Lost Rivers Sea Self-Interest
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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.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

Historian Mark Sake Search
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.

Body Each Time Experience
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Anyone Aware Become Despair
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Earth Materials Natural Productions
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It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.

Become Calm Extraordinary Possible
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Ever Free High Hope
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

Allow Easy Easy Way Engine
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

Beach Front Live Love
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Excellence Noblest Search For
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Ashore Dangerous Dangers Fishermen
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Biology Curious Evolution Existence
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The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.
Sea Beautiful
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Edge Earthly Knowledge Nature
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.

Ocean Sea Water
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Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

Cannot Else Everything Everything Else
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The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Between Communism Democracy Difference
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Chief Happiness Search Sources
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

Look Storm Sea Sky
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death Even Life Life And Death
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Cannot Change Charge Circumstances
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

Like man Rich Sailboat Music
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People can follow God and still be ignorant. The search for knowledge is your responsibility.

Ignorant God Knowledge Search
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When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain.

Good Calm Ship Sea
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Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

Been Blows Comfort Day
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Ocean Sea Sail Watch
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After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Day Half Traveler Realize
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Fight Might Only Place
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Eat Fishes Little Great
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Destroy Develop Fierce Forest
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Meaning Religion Search Ultimate
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Identify the enemy which is oftentimes our own attitude. Have faith and trust God to see you through the season.

The enemy Attitude Faith Trust God
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The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.

Heart Push Soul Sky
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Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea.

Searching Heart Sorrow Words
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So much had fallen into the sea. Hats fell in to the sea. Hearts fell into the sea. So much had fallen into the sea

Fallen Sea Hearts
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The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

Cares Fretted me Fields Sea
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
Beauty God Kindness Love
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In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

Sea Shore Summer Felt
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Eat Fishes Great GreatOnes
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Appear Been Before Boy
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