We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a particular idea is linked to a character, it's like an engine moves it. Then you have a novel underway.
By: Chinua Achebe
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We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.
By: Diane Ackerman
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
By: Joseph Conrad
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What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.
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The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
By: Peter Ackroyd
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Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
By: William Osler
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
By: William Cowper
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
By: Ansel Adams
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
By: Nikola Tesla
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Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.
By: George Matthew Adams
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