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Sailor Inspirational Quotes (663)

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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
Ian Fleming
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I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
Paul Watson
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
Herman Melville
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Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.
Paul Watson
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Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.
Herman Melville
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On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
William Bligh
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He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.
Herman Melville
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Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
Alain Gerbault
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What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.
Linda Greenlaw
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We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
Abby Sunderland
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There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville
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Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Herman Melville
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I am, as I am whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
Herman Melville
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Nature is nobody's ally.
Herman Melville
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In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.
Paul Watson
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What troops Of generous boys in happiness thus bred Saturnians through life's Tempe led, Went from the North and came from the South, With golden mottoes in the mouth, To lie down midway on a bloody bed.
Herman Melville
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A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
Herman Melville
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The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
John Newton
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This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
Paul Watson
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TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
Peter Scott
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In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
Herman Melville
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A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.
Christopher Columbus
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville
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