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> [The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/the-sea-is-selective-slow-at-recognition-of-effort-and-aptitude-but/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

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> [The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/the-sea-is-selective-slow-at-recognition-of-effort-and-aptitude-but-2/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

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## Other authors on Aptitude

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## More by Felix Riesenberg

> [An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/an-excellent-monument-might-be-erected-to-the-unknown-stockholder-it/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

> [The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/the-sea-is-selective-slow-at-recognition-of-effort-and-aptitude-but/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

> [No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/no-literature-is-richer-than-that-of-the-sea-no-story-is-more/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

> [The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/the-sea-is-selective-slow-at-recognition-of-effort-and-aptitude-but-2/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

> [No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-riesenberg/no-matter-how-important-a-man-at-sea-may-consider-himself-unless-he/)

[Felix Riesenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-riesenberg/)

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