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• I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

  Joan Collins

  Summer, Use It Or Lose It, Years

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• All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Young, Difficult

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.63, Penguin

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• The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Technology, Thinking, Submarines

  Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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• There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Book, Swear To God

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• When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit

  Dan Brown

  Dark, Swimming, Tunnels

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.207, Knopf

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• I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.

  Mark Haddon

  Memories, Swimming, Past

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

  Steven Morrissey

  Beautiful, Children, Brave

  "Morrissey interview: Big mouth strikes again". Interview with Simon Armitage, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

  Tammara Webber

  Grief, Loss, Choices

  Tammara Webber (2013). “Here Without You”, p.123, Tammara Webber

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• We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

  Charlize Theron

  Inspiring, Women, Swimming

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 27, 2015

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• In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

  Michael Jackson

  Book, Mean, Hard Work

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• That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Ocean, Rushing

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight;
  Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Sight, Temples

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.275

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• Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Dust, People

  H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.9

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• "I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into the cart. "And Twinkies." "It is... Except that it's a cookout thrown by my mother." "And?" "And my mother doesn't cook." He looked at me waiting. "At all. My mother doesn't cook at all." "She must cook sometimes." "Nope." "Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just KNOW."

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dog, Oatmeal

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 27, 2002.

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• Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

  Michael Crichton

  Swimming, Water, People

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• Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

  Cassandra Clare

  Struggle, Fate, Trying

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

  Jamie O'Neill

  War, Lying, Rain

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• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Eye, Sea

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• If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Summer, Dark, Eight

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

  A. A. Milne

  Rivers, Stones, Stuck

  Joan Powers, A. A. Milne (1996). “Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Air, Swings, Sea

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• But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

  Dave Eggers

  Baby, Clothes, Dry

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.367, Pan Macmillan

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• Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I row East in my coracle. When that sinks, shall I paddle East with my four paws. Then, when I can swim no longer, if I have not yet reached Aslan's Country, there shall I sink with my nose to the sunrise... and Peepiceek will be head of Talking Mice in Narnia

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain Jim, I cannot sail." "Then down with the galley slaves you go." "But Captain Jim, I cannot row." "Then you must be the pirate's clerk." "But Captain Jim, I cannot work.

  Shel Silverstein

  Pirate, Clerks, Captains

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