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I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. -- Charles Darwin
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees. -- Chris Priestley
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. -- Sterling Hayden
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up. -- Henry David Thoreau
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. -- Roger Ebert
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. -- Noam Chomsky
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. -- Rodney Stark
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. -- Jean Batten
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does. -- Alan Villiers
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking. -- Billy Campbell
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. -- Roald Dahl
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. -- Bronislaw Malinowski
I love sailing but hate cruise ships. -- Garrett Neff
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. -- Fernando Pessoa
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. -- P. D. James
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright. -- Neil Young
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'. -- Mary Roach
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! -- Noam Chomsky

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