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«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
«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)
| Keywords:
cent, cheerless, coast, harbor, inch, Pacific, Pacific Coast, Pacific Ocean, Public place, public treasury, rockbound, the Pacific, The Western, Treasuries, treasury, uninviting, Western
«Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Angeles, blackout, bombardment, breaking off, California, catastrophic, distinguished, earthquake, horizontal, inferno, Kong, Pacific, presuppose, presupposes, sliding, the Pacific, towering, vertical
«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
«Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.»
«Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
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an island, Hawaii, island, Pacific, pivotal, right here, role, the Pacific
«Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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Balboa, Big Sur, California, Darien, Pacific, peak, Sur, the Pacific, the Peak
«Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien»
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