"There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream."

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Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855). “The Physical Geography of the Sea”, p.25

Matthew Fontaine Maury

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“Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.”
“I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.”
“Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.”
“Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.”
“By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.”
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“Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.”
“The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying,”

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