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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

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

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.