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Letter "S" » shipping
«The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.»
«I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
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Author)
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About:
Education,
Fear,
Knowledge,
Optimism
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Keywords:
afraid,
How to,
learning,
sail,
ship,
shipped,
shipping,
storming,
storms
«A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.»
Author: William Shedd
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About:
Courage,
Purpose,
Risk
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Keywords:
harbor,
harbored,
harbors,
safe,
safes,
safe harbor,
ship,
shipped,
shipping,
ships
«If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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About:
Leadership,
Longing,
Motivation
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Keywords:
assign,
assigning,
assigns,
build,
collect,
collects,
drum,
drummed,
drumming,
drum up,
endless,
immensity,
Into the Woods,
sea,
sea a,
ship,
shipped,
shipping,
tasks,
the Endless,
The Sea,
wood
«The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.»
Author: Douglas Adams
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Writer)
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Keywords:
bricks,
brick in,
get the hang,
hang in,
hang out,
hang up,
hung,
same,
shipped,
shipping,
ships,
sky,
The Brick
«The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; / (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) / When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.»
«Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
beware,
bewares,
expenses,
leak,
leaking,
leaks,
leak out,
sank,
ship,
shipped,
shipping,
sink,
sink in,
small ship
«Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
burglar,
contemptible,
hastening,
prowl,
prowling,
prowls,
scorn,
seas,
shipping,
skulk,
skulking,
slouched,
slouches,
slouching,
vile
«We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.»
«Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
crossed,
crossing over,
Crossing the,
cross out,
doomed,
dooms,
each other,
had,
in passing,
in two ways,
I Pass,
I Say No,
made,
pass,
passes out,
pass out,
said,
shipped,
shipping,
ships,
sign,
signing,
sign in,
sign of the cross,
sign on,
sign over,
sign up,
storm,
storming,
word