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"We are the pioneers of the world, the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things..."
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"A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they were being hauled in. The tractor was inescapable, and they knew it. The shuttle's small yet potent engines struggled vainly against the irresistible pull. Inside, the Hammer and his men prepared to meet their fate."
"To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face."
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
"Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat."
"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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