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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for ma

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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