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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number…
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And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I…
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day…
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She…
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Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
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They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some…
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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a…
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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as…
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Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.
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To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on…
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound…
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Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and…
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day…
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To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.
— Warren Buffett
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When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of…
— Robert Doisneau
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I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
— Tre Cool
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What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
— Patrick F. McManus
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FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH
— Irving Fisher
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Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
— Thomas Adams
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It's no surprise that the droll and (seemingly) all-knowing wizard behind the Chicago Style Q&A puts it all together-entertainingly-for manuscript editors in…
— Arthur Plotnik
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My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
— Courtney Love
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