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Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. – Winston Churchill
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. – Hunter S. Thompson
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. – Frederick Douglas
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. – Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money. – Deane Jordan
Dr. Karen Jenson Vampires like you aren't a species, you're just infected, a virus, a sexually transmitted disease. Frost I'll tell you what we are, sister. We're the top of the f*ing food chain. – Blade**
feelings come in a daisy chain. all entwined together and beautiful as a whole but there are always the weak flowers somewhere in the links. – Emily Kate Milne
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. – Dag Hammarskjld
Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don’t let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers! – Mehmet Murat ildan
I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. – Charles Mathias, Jr.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own. – Emerson
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith
It only takes a single ping-pong ball to start a chain reaction when you throw it into a room full of loaded mouse traps. – Richard B.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. – Robert Burton
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! – Alexander Pope
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone. – Author Unknown
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. – Kahlil Gibran
Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links of the chain before respecting the chain! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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