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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."

"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."

"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."
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"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."

"One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea."

"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
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"Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong."

"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."

"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."

"The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind."

"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."

"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."
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