"The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind."

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Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand

William Falconer

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“I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.”

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“Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little neutral ambiguities. Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent. Live fully, live passionately, live disastrously. Let's live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.”

Source : Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult
“Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”
“Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.”
“Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.”
“I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.”

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“The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.”
“When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.”

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