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I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
Author:
William Whipple
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.
Author:
Stuart Symington
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
Author:
Pamela Stephenson
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Author:
Charles Simic
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Barney Ross
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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W. Richter
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I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
Author:
Gilda Radner
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The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that.
Author:
Emeric Pressburger
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In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
Author:
John Phillips
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We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.
Author:
Jose Orozco
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.
Author:
George Norris
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Author:
Thomas Moore
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
Author:
Gavin MacLeod
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
Author:
Gavin MacLeod
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
Author:
Thomas Keneally
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Author:
Zora Hurston
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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Author:
Grace Hopper
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To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
Author:
John Hewson
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Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
Author:
John Hawkins
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Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
Author:
Wilson Greatbatch
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Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.
Author:
Gil Gerard
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). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
Author:
Frank Gaffney
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It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
Author:
Corey Feldman
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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
Author:
William Falconer
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In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
Author:
William Dampier
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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'
Author:
Lewis Carroll
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By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
Author:
John Byng
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We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
Author:
George Bush
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Author:
Malcolm Bradbury
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Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
Author:
William Bligh
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The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Author:
Peter Beagle
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Author:
Amelia Barr
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Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Author:
Robert Ballard
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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
Author:
Dan Aykroyd
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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Author:
Jean Auel
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Author:
Aristophanes
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We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.
Author:
George Allen
