"It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value."

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Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

Matthew Fontaine Maury

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“In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.”
“There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.”
“Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.”
“I don't mean to sound so disenchanted, but I will tell you what has been going on in our country in the mere - the last nine months to a year in terms of the fact that there is clear evidentiary proof based on video footage.”

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“If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.”
“I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.”
“If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.”
“I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.”

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