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Letter "P" » Pacific
«Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!»
«Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.»
Author: Miriam Beard
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astonish, Atlantic, bizarre, go across, Pacific, similarity, the Pacific
«The burden the Navy has carried so brilliantly in the Pacific will inevitably be shared more and more with the Army and its air forces. But the Navy has performed its historic duty; the Navy got them there.»
Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine, Jr.
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air force, Air Forces, brilliantly, historic, inevitably, navy, Pacific, performed, the Pacific
«The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pacific, creating a tall, furious cloud of steam.»
Author: Robert Gross
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crack, crawls, emerges, furious, glowing, Pacific, redhot, steam, tall, the Pacific, toothpaste
«The deep dark-shining Pacific leans on the land Feeling his cold strength To the outmost margins»
«The worst-case scenario I see is a major nuclear arms race unfolding in the Pacific. That's not a forecast, that's a logical train of events.»
Author: William J. Perry
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arms race, forecast, Nuclear arms, Nuclear arms race, Pacific, scenario, scenarios, unfolding
«What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
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cent, cheerless, coast, harbor, inch, Pacific, Pacific Coast, Pacific Ocean, Public place, public treasury, rockbound, the Pacific, The Western, Treasuries, treasury, uninviting, Western
«The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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agent, drove, free agent, Free agents, in case, mobility, nineteenth, nineteenth century, Pacific, privacy, restaurant, sandwich, secret agent, secret agents, the Pacific
«We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
burst, harming, lineal, Pacific, sinister, slaughter, smoldering, traits, unharmed
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