"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing."

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Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.131, BoD – Books on Demand

William Falconer

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“Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.”
“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”
“I think it's just a coincidence that the North American teams are out. Most of us here have been playing in North America for a long time. Our knowledge of the big ice has been world championships here and there, same for the Canadians and the Americans. I don't see it as an advantage.”
“We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.”
“The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.64, Random House
“But if a mirror ever makesÂ you sad you should know that it doesÂ not know you.”
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

Source : Alexander H. Stephens' “Corner Stone” Speech, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 21, 1861.
“Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?”

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