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«There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.»
Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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hiding, Pacific, sheltering, slender, speculation, theories, The Visionary, visionaries, visionary, wheels
«In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.»
Author: Max De Pree
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Culture,
Leadership
| Keywords:
conch, cultures, listened, Pacific, shell, speaker
«Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
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Boeing, Boeing 747, darkened, fleeing, gathers, incandescent, lilac, lilacs, Pacific, Pacific Coast, racing, twilight, veil, westward
«Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Angeles, blackout, bombardment, breaking off, California, catastrophic, distinguished, earthquake, horizontal, inferno, Kong, Pacific, presuppose, presupposes, sliding, the Pacific, towering, vertical
«Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.»
«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.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
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an island, Hawaii, island, Pacific, pivotal, right here, role, the Pacific
«Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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Balboa, Big Sur, California, Darien, Pacific, peak, Sur, the Pacific, the Peak
«It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
assist, Atlantic Ocean, cannibal, cannibals, five hundred, Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Zanzibar
«Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien»
«No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.»
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