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Titanic 1912
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At about 11:40 pm on Sunday, April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic arrived at a point in destiny with an iceberg, the fatal blow being struck underwater. At about 9:30 pm on Friday the 13th of January, 2012, the Concordia struck a large
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“There is a deeper order to the universe, and its connections can’t be explained by cause and effect.”
― The Necessary Goodbye: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion
― The Necessary Goodbye: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. —Albert Einstein”
― The Necessary Goodbye: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion
― The Necessary Goodbye: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion
“You do not have to travel to find the sea, for the traces of its ancient stands are everywhere about. Though you may be a thousand miles inland, you can easily find reminders that will reconstruct for the eye and ear of the mind the processions of its ghostly waves and the roar of its surf, far back in time. So, on a mountain top in Pennsylvania, I have sat on rocks of whitened limestone, fashioned of the shells of billions upon billions of minute sea creatures. Once they had lived and died in an arm of the ocean that overlay this place, and their limy remains had settled to the bottom.”
― The Sea Around Us
― The Sea Around Us
“Geologists say that each of the grander divisions of earth history consists of three phases: in the first the continents are high, erosion is active, and the seas are largely confined to their basins; in the second the continents are lowest and the seas have invaded them broadly; in the third the continents have begun once more to rise. According to the late Charles Schuchert, who devoted much of his distinguished career as a geologist to mapping the ancient seas and lands: ‘Today we are living in the beginning of a new cycle, when the continents are largest, highest, and scenically grandest. The oceans, however, have begun another invasion upon North America.”
― The Sea Around Us
― The Sea Around Us
“What I find most unforgettable about Convoluta is this: sometimes it happens that a marine biologist, wishing to study some related problem, will transfer a whole colony of the worms into the laboratory, there to establish them in an aquarium, where there are no tides. But twice each day Convoluta rises out of the sand on the bottom of the aquarium, into the light of the sun. And twice each day it sinks again into the sand. Without a brain, or what we would call a memory, or even any very clear perception, Convoluta continues to live out its life in this alien place, remembering, in every fiber of its small green body, the tidal rhythm of the distant sea. III”
― The Sea Around Us
― The Sea Around Us
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