Publilius Syrus Quotes
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
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I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.
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The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.
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I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
