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«Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.»
«The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
bulwark, floating, In the Navy, island, navy, ornament, royal, the island
«No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
an island, Continent, entire, island, piece, the continent
«There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.»
«Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!But in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all!»
«No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
achieve, an island, exist, feel, greater, island, Islands of the, No Man, purpose, purposing, related, related to, satisfaction, satisfactions, some, woman
«No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a 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 . . .»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Country,
Friends,
Mankind,
Nations
| Keywords:
an island, clod, Continent, Europe, island, promontory, the continent, Thine, washed, wash away
«I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.»
«There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
at the bottom, In books, island, loot, looting, pirate, pirates, Spanish, Treasure Island
«The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
indecision, infinite, island, Islands of the, optimist, perpetual, pessimist, possibilities, stranded, the island, The Peninsula, The Strand
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