"Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors."

-- James Lawrence

#Able Quotes #Sailor Quotes #Navigation Quotes

“The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.”

Source : Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556, 1951.
“You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.”
“The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Theological essays and other papers. 1854”, p.94
“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.27, Macmillan
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
“A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.”
“I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.”
“But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.”

Source : "La Dorotea". Book by Lope de Vega, 1632.

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