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• Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ocean, Vacation, Guilt

  "The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Ocean, Knowledge, Islands

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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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

  Ocean, Heart, Marine

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

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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

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Morning, Heart

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

  Amber Heard

  Running, Slow Motion

  "Amber Heard: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. August 20, 2011.

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• One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Art, Ocean, Littles

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Crabs, Young, Seaweed

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• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  Fran Drescher

  Art, Looks, Concerts

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• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Ocean, Sea

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• You can never have too much sky.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Sky, Flipping A Coin, Coins

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.50, Vintage

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• maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Home, Sea

  E. E. Cummings (1983). “Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

  Geraldo Rivera

  People, Risk, Literature

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• I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

  Helen Keller

  Ocean, Air, Sea

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

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• I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

  Maria Sharapova

  Ocean, Mean, Going Out

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• The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

  Bryan Procter

  Ocean, Marine, Blue

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

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• I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

  Rebecca Miller

  Art, Drinking, Beer

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Ocean, Wave Of Life, Light Waves

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• They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

  Leif Garrett

  Boys, Remakes, Beach Boys

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• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  Larry Wilcox

  Running, Hiking, Like Being Alone

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• On the beach, I'm definitely team natural. I mean, a good tan when the freckles are popping and some saltwater hair, I think that's super hot. So, I'm all about the natural on the beach.

  Nina Agdal

  Team, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Ocean, Memorable

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

  Christopher Paolini

  Nature, Hate, Ocean

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

  River Phoenix

  Football, Dog, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Nature, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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