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• The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Nature, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4361, Delphi Classics

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• I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Bark, Stout, Stem

  "Laughing Gas". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1936.

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• We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Father, Sea

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• The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Nature, Believe

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• My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

  Graham Parker

  Simple, Zombie, Firsts

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• ... there's a large core of powerlessness which is balanced against the unwritten contract that says that if you behave, you'll be okay. No wonder people pay so much attention to knowing the rules, to knowing the right people, to not making waves, to never making errors -- to not risking, trying, innovating.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Knowing, Errors, People

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• The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Race, Humanity, Genius

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• And evermore the waters worship God;--
  And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
  While listening to the music of the waves!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Ocean, Water, Listening

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.388

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• God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Friday, Running, Monday

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• The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Past, Lines, Radiation

  Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1975). “The Development of X-ray Analysis”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Pain, Suffering, Helping

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• I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Skills, Tears, World

  "Hymn" by Czeslaw Milosz, 1935.

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• The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Mean, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.307, Bantam Classics

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
  When the last fires will wave to me

  W. S. Merwin

  Death, Fire, Self

  William Stanley Merwin, “For The Anniversary Of My Death”

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• Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

  Newt Gingrich

  Age, Needs, Credit

  "Your Daily Newt: A $40 Billion Entitlement for Laptops" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2011.

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• It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.

  Tulku Thondup

  Life Changing, Sight, Self

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• The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

  Corazon Aquino

  Government, Magic, Demand

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• Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Moving, Light, Perfect

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• In my lifetime, I've met a lot of people who never rode a wave, but we share the same consciousness. Surfing is a kind of a state of mind... I mean, it's a feeling that people have about their life that really, in a way, kind of makes them a surfer.

  Gerry Lopez

  Mean, People, Surfing

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• Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

  Lene

  Thinking, Light, Data

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• The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of times. At first, this can be very disorienting. But it induces the president to move quickly. He may, for example, mimic a wave with his arms in order to see how his actions extend across this mirroring of time, observing if the figure at the end acts at the same instant as the figure before him, and so on and so forth.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Moving, Past, Mirrors

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• Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rain, Good Day, Eye

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• She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

  Anthony J. Carson

  Beach, Blonde, Young

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• Up and down! Up and down!
  From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;
  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam
  The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--
  A home, if such a place may be,
  For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,
  On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,
  And only seeketh her rocky lair
  To warm her young and to teach them spring
  At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!

  Bryan Procter

  Spring, Home, Air

  Barry Cornwall, “The Stormy Petrel”

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