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«First we just gave them these surpluses. Next we agreed to pay freight on transportation to ports. Then we agreed to mill the grain and package it. The next thing [you know] we'll be asked to cook it and serve it.»
Author: Allen J. Ellender | Keywords: freight, freighted, mill, package, ports, surpluses, transportation
«A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.»
Author: Grace Murray Hopper (Computer programmer, Inventor) | Keywords: port, ports, ships
«If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas | Keywords: captain, port, ports, preserve, ship
«It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Travel | Keywords: determines, port, ports, The Coming, voyage, voyaging
«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: anchor, anchored, anchors, direction, drift, drifted, drifts, moving, port, ports, sail, The Wind, wind, with the wind
«No wind favors him who has no destined port.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: destine, destined, favors, port, ports
«If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: favorable, port, ports, steered, steering, steers, wind
«If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: favorable, port, ports, sailing
«But the quincunx of heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr. | Keywords: ports
«All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: Eye of, havens, ports, visits
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