J. C. Squire Quotes
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
Nathan Outteridge
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
Laura Dekker
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
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I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.
Hannah Mills
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
Willa Cather
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Columbus wrote this of his dehumanized “cargo”: “It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell….Here there are so many of these slaves…although they are living things they are as good as gold.” Columbus gave permission to his crew who remained in Hispaniola to enslave the native Taino people “in the amount desired.” Columbus awarded a teenage Taino girl to one of his crew, Miguel Cuneo, for use as his sex slave. Cuneo bragged that when she “resisted with all her strength,” he “thrashed her mercilessly and raped her.” Columbus bestowed this kind of “employee benefit” on many of his men, writing to a friend about large numbers of “dealers” who specialized in supplying young girls to the so-called Christians, adding, “those from nine to ten [years old] are now in demand.
Brian D. McLaren
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I don't want my fans to think they have to get lip fillers or look like me in any way.
Kylie Jenner
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
H. P. Lovecraft
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When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
C. S. Lewis
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Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
J. C. Squire