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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald…

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They…
From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a…
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare…
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great…
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of…
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,…
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us…
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering…

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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and… — Paul Auster
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed.… — James Callaghan
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball.… — Brian Clough
Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than… — Michael Mullen
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz
As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change… — Brad Wilkerson
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and… — Barbara Ehrenreich
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most… — Samuel Eliot Morison
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing… — Charles Horton Cooley
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up… — John Sergeant Wise
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that… — Samuel Eliot Morison

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