“ We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. ”
- John Archibald Wheeler- Copy
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“ Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area. ”
- Mike Love- Copy
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“ She has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim… her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization. ”
- Sylvia Levi- Copy
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“ No party has a monopoly on honesty, but with the collapse of old-style GOP machines in places like Indiana and Long Island, New York, it's Democrats who have a greater opportunity to cheat. ”
- John Fund- Copy
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“ I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan. ”
- Mickey Rivers- Copy
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“ Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life. ”
- David McCord- Copy
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“ How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ”
- Abe Fortas- Copy
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“ The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
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“ You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive. ”
- Benicio Del Toro- Copy
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“ If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode. ”
- John Keble- Copy
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“ Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
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“ Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ The new owners will be bound by the same agreement we have with Isle of Capri. Certainly, our preference would be to keep the team in Pittsburgh forever. ”
- Mario Lemieux- Copy
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“ At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton. ”
- Jeremy Irons- Copy
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“ Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. ”
- Denis Waitley- Copy
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“ In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. ”
- Susan Kaufman- Copy
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