"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."

-- Joseph Conrad

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“What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.”
“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.”
“If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.”
“I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.”
“We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.”

Source : "50 years later, 'Howl' still resonates". www.today.com. October 6, 2005.
“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.
“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
“I love Canada, always.”

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