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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Beautiful
Few
Collect
Beach
More
Only
Shells
Cannot
Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Water
Build
Building
Ocean
Extract
Lobster
Unable
Rises
Thus
Because
Oyster
Shell
Shells
Oceans
Referred
Crab
Survive
Often
To Survive
Shrimp
Creatures
Coral
Need
Osteoporosis
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
Henry Grunwald
Ocean
Beach
Objects
Only
Glass
Shells
Up
Sand
Sweep
Sea
Washed
Creatures
Seaweed
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus
Trouble
Fire
Shells
Germans
Quotations
Them
Kant
Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.
Shimon Peres
Ignorance
Poverty
Borders
Prevent
Wire
Firing
Terror
Does
Shells
Eradicated
Rockets
Artillery
Stop
Which
Barbed
Barbed Wire
I have played in matches where individuals have frozen and gone into their shells: they don't want the ball, they don't communicate, and they don't do their jobs. Fear turns them to stone.
Alex Scott
Communicate
Fear
Gone
Jobs
Individuals
Ball
Matches
Shells
Stone
Where
Want
Frozen
Them
Turns
Played
Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.
CeeLo Green
Time
You
Emotions
Other
Possessed
Something
Emotion
Simply
Until
Shells
Than
From Time To Time
Just
Different
Different Emotions
Compelled
Receive
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
Charles Lyell
Long
Those
East
Beaches
Both
Fact
Part
Containing
Shells
Been
West
Lines
Familiar
Scotland
Same
Central
Inhabiting
Sea
Now
Species
Raised
Marine
Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.
David Souter
Time
First
Ellis
Settlement
High
City
Lies
Disappeared
New
Feet
Tide
Mostly
Island
Shells
New Jersey
York
Tip
New York
Manhattan
Which
Sand
Mud
Mile
Harbor
European
Jersey
Nearly
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
Edward Forbes
Living
Worn
Some
Delicate
Beyond
Look
Dead
Shells
Still
Were
Been
Where
Depths
Much
Certainly
Appear
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
James Longstreet
Fire
Several
Solid
Hail
Town
Like
Shells
Caught
Crashed
Burst
Places
Shot
Rained
Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.
Janine Benyus
Science
People
Better
Spider
Looking
Ways
Silk
Could
Inspired
Cheaper
New
Toxic
Make
Shells
Materials
Revolutionize
New Ways
Less
Biologically
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing.
Jonathan Miles
Beaches
Colored
Occupied
Shells
Pink
Blushing
Victorian
Justly
Sands
Organisms
Appear
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
Sam Kean
You
Achieve
Atoms
Chemistry
Satisfied
Sum
Borrow
Steal
Had
Feel
Shed
Shell
Shells
Up
Different
Different Elements
Sentence
Might
Full
Electron
Elements
Need
Numbers
In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.
Saul David
War
Battle
Single
More
Fired
Had
Shells
Than
Whole
March
British
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.
Steve Albini
You
Example
Seen
Idiot
Everyone
Way
Would
See
Wearing
Rash
Adopt
Something
He
Instantly
Like
For Example
Look
Makes
Prior
Shells
Normal
Person
Any
Just
Whereby
Happen
Them
Population
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite
You
Situation
Think
Way
Flying
Would
One-Way
Sharp
Develops
Like
React
Shells
Up
Quite
Might
Stand
Stand Up
At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
Qandeel Baloch
Change
People
I Am
Old
Typical
Mindset
Out
See
Come
Practices
Shells
How
Am
Least
False
Trying
Want
Who
International
Beliefs
Media
Orthodox
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