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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
Berlie Doherty
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
Sylvia Earle
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It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.


Noam Chomsky
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.


Miguel de Cervantes
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In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.


James Theodore Bent
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I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.


Tom Cruise
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It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.


Stone Gossard
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Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.


Diane von Furstenberg
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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.


Herman Melville
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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.
Chiang Kai-shek
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John C. Hawkes
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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
Larry Ellison
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The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
Andy Richter
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter
I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
Tim Roth
To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.
Michael Caine
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After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
Tzipi Livni