Aquariums Quotes - Page 4

• Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

  Tom Robbins

  Swim, Soul, Ponds

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

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• Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

  Neal Shusterman

  Sharks, Space, Long

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Effort, Essentials, Advancement

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• All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Other Cultures, Others Opinions, Giving

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• Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Essentials, Original Thought, Revolution

  "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 2, 1936.

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• The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

  Amy Goodman

  Jobs, Government, Media

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• The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank.

  John Grant

  Running, Tanks, Ships

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• Knowing how people will use something is essential

  Donald A. Norman

  Knowing, People, Essentials

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• An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

  George Weinberg

  Ideas, Giving, Important

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• In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

  Gijs de Vries

  Essentials, Information, Limits

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• We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

  Paul Harvey

  Men, Keepers

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• The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.

  John Grant

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

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• Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Heaven, Essentials

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• I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  Carson McCullers

  Loneliness, Writing, People

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.302, Library of America

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• My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

  Herbert Read

  War, Discipline, Essentials

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

  Harriet Martineau

  Essentials, Literature, Way

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.645, Broadview Press

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• If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Writing, Two

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• And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

  Haruki Murakami

  Summer, Zoos, Garden

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• The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Theatre, Acting, Essentials

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• Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Death, Imagination, Evil

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

  Charles Scribner IV

  Reading, Soul, Everyday

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• Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Character, Men, Age

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• From the time we begin school, if not sooner, we are taught to be blind to our assets and only see our deficits. We are carefully marked on how many we got wrong on a test and, rarely if ever, asked how we know how to spell the ones we got right. By the time we are adults, we are well versed in every one of our limitations, skilled in our incompetence. If we were fish in an aquarium, it would be as if we kept smashing against the glass, and forgot the fact that we were perfectly capable of turning ever so slightly and swimming gracefully in the water all around us.

  Dawna Markova

  Education, School, Swimming

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

  Barbara Sher

  Expectations, Events, Essentials

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.77, Dell

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• It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Essentials

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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