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• If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.

  Charles Poliquin

  Running, Green, Grows

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• I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Silence

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• Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

  John Kao

  Communication, Sea, Creative

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• Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

  James A. Michener

  Stars, Ocean, Animal

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• LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Self Esteem, Weapons

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.153, University of Georgia Press

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• I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

  Zayn Malik

  Girlfriend, Drowning, Stills

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• After the clinch, it doesn't matter what happens, one way or another, we're going to hit the ground, and we'll be in my world. The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim.

  Carlos Machado

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• The ground is my ocean, I’m the shark, and most people don’t even know how to swim.

  Carlos Machado

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

  Seneca the Elder

  Men, Baggage, Concentration

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• We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

  Christina Baldwin

  Thinking, Water, Mind

  Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.77, New World Library

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Men, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• The richest of all lords is Use,
  And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse.
  Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,
  Drink the wild air's salubrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Sunshine, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.243

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• A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Ocean, Boys

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• I've never regretted a swim

  Joseph Murray

  Never Regret

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• I would love to be able to swim in the ocean in Malibu. But that is asking for a bikini shot. That's inviting something that I don't want to happen. I don't need to be on a 'Who's Skinny, Who's Fat, Who's Looking Healthy, Who's Not Eating?' list.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Ocean, Healthy, Needs

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• If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Running, Cities, Two

  "Pollution" (song) (1965)

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• I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

  Rickson Gracie

  Ocean, Sharks, People

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• But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.

  Suzanne LaFleur

  Swimming, Long, People

  Suzanne LaFleur (2009). “Love, Aubrey”, p.242, Wendy Lamb Books

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• The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a deep lake and I didn't know how to swim, I would become highly motivated in an instant. Climbing from the lake would mean more to me than anything else in the world. My effort would be no less than astounding and I would suddenly become one of the most excited and enthusiastic persons imaginable.

  Steve Goodier

  Mean, Lakes, Climbing

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• I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  Kathleen Moore

  Giving Up, Fall, Eye

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• Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

  Pope Francis

  Tides

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• I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.

  Robert McNamara

  Running, Beach, Morning

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Swimming, Boys

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• I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.

  Shaggy

  Surfing, Trying, Boards

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