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  The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

  Jules Verne

  Lonely, Ocean, Men

  Jules Verne (2015). “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories”, p.49, 谷月社

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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.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Breathing, Water

  "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The sea is as near as we come to another world.

  Anne Stevenson

  Ocean, Water, World

  Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Wave, Breaking Promises, Whole

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (2008). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Rivers

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• I need the sea because it teaches me

  Pablo Neruda

  Needs, Teach

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• Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

  Bob Dylan

  Ocean, Heart, Dark

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• Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Ends, Corners

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• Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, Waiting

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• It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

  Vito Dumas

  Sailing, Nautical, Ships

  John Guzzwell, Vito Dumas, Joshua Slocum (1976). “Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations”, John De Graff

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• When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sailing, Nautical, Looks

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• I love the sea because it is boundless.

  Craig Thompson

  Boundless

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Sky, Sea And Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Ocean, Stones, Tongue

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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• I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

  Igor Stravinsky

  Drunk, Sick

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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• The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

  Cornelia Funke

  Longing, Filled

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.274, Scholastic Inc.

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• You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Loss, Next, Longing

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• I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ocean, Thinking, Light

  Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews on September 14, 1962. "Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy", 1962.

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• The sea lives in every one of us.

  Robert Wyland

  Beach, Ocean, Beach Ocean

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Motivational, Adventure, Positivity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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