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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

– Andrew Schneider

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

– Michael J. Gelb

In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

– Thomas Jefferson

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

– Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisinor of Azkaban, Dumbledore

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

– Polish Proverb

How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.

– Clifford Truesdell

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it

– Jonathan Winters

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

– Thomas Jefferson

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

– Benjamin Franklin

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

– David Smith

Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning.

– Dejan Stojanovic

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

– Lord Macaulay

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

– Ayn Rand

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

– Ann Landers

Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S GOING

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

– Arthur Stringer

The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

– Professor Edsger Dijkstra, at the ACN South Central Regional Conference, Austin, Texas, 16 to 18 Novemver 1984

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

– Thomas B. Macaulay

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

– E. W. Dijkstra

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

– Norman Juster

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