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Letter "W" » waves
«The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.»
«You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.»
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
Author: Ralph Marston
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Keywords:
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the pond,
The Sea,
The Wind,
watching,
waves
«When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.»
Author: Samuel Ullman
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Keywords:
aerial,
aerials,
covered,
cynicism,
die down,
eighty,
ice,
optimism,
pessimism,
snows,
waves
«Water has an endless horizon; there is no limitation when you look out into the water. There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself as far as it can possibly imagine. I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows of cornfields. There is something exhilarating about it.»
Author: Billy Joel
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Pianist,
Singer,
Song Writer)
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Keywords:
amber,
As Far,
cornfield,
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grain,
horizon,
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Midwest,
No Wave,
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