“ The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here. ”
- Sir Francis Drake- Copy
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“ The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "0 God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.". ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. ”
- Charles Kuralt- Copy
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“ You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
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“ Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ”
- Carl Schurz- Copy
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“ Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. ”
- William Petty- Copy
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“ There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ”
- Charles Kendall Adams- Copy
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“ If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process. ”
- Michael Lewis- Copy
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“ If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, Phileas Fogg would still be in the air, the Ancient Mariner wouldn't have had time to tell anyone his story. ”
- Michael Winerip- Copy
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“ Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set. ”
- Leonidas of Tarentum- Copy
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