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"No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent." »John Donne
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"The larger the Island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." »Mary B. Yates
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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
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"By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an Island which no flood can overwhelm." »The Dhammapada
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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, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
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"A big Island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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." »J Danforth Quayle
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their Island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this." »Henry David Thoreau
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"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne
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"We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi." »Woody Allen
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating Island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid Island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." »H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
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"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the Island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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