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“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”
― George W. Bush

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”
― Karl Pilkington, The Ricky Gervais Show - First, Second and Third Seasons

“All men are equal before fish.”
― Herbert Hoover

“The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on Earth, and perhaps his last chance to prove himself a rational species.”
― John L. Culliney

“Let those who want to dance, dance. Let those who can awaken, awake.”
― René Barjavel, La Nuit des temps

“Ce qui s'apprend sans peine ne vaut rien et ne demeure pas.”
― René Barjavel, L'Enchanteur

“On ne sait jamais rien. Sauf ce qui est sans importance.”
― René Barjavel, La Tempête

“Things never happen the same way twice.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“fish,” the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. “Under the sea, the fish eat us.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows

“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
― Jacques Cousteau

“Le poisson rouge ne peut ramener la complexité des océans à la quiétude de son bocal. (p.185)”
― Yasmina Khadra, L'équation africaine

“There is an easy way to remember the formula for Pblock by relating it to the Poisson distribution. Can you see what it is?”
― Mor Harchol-Balter, Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action

“The ocean," I said, "look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries,
The smell of the sea.”
― Mourid Barghouti

“C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed by it--how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren't adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”
― Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

“Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.”
― Galileo Galilei

“We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues in the period of maturity it is called obesity or cancer. Prescribing growth as the cure for the energy crisis has all the logic of prescribing increasing quantities of food as a remedy for obesity.”
― Albert A. Bartlett

“The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.”
― Wallace D. Wattles, The Wisdom of Wallace D. Wattles - Including: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Great & The Science of Being Well

“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.”
― Craig Dilworth, Too Smart for our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader