"Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that."

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"Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that."

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"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."

Joan D. Vinge, American Author

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"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."

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"Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally."

Ian Allison, British Scientist

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"In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew."

Ruth Park, New Zealander Author

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Robert Falcon Scott, British Explorer

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"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."

Titus Livius, Roman Historian

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"There are no signposts in the sea."

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"Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters."

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"However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States."

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