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"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: boats, books, ideas, sailing, ships

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"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
— Warren Buffett

tags: boats, buffet, warren

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"To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: boats, perseverence, progress, sailing, sea

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"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."
— Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows)

tags: boats

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"...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath..."
— Gary Paulsen (Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats)

tags: boats, ocean, sailing, sea, wind

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"I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea."
— Gary Paulsen (Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats)

tags: boats, ocean, sea

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""Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
"Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset"
— Lesley M.M. Blume (Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters)

tags: audacious, blume, boats, cornelia, escapades, humor, lesley, mm, random, river, sisters, somerset, spying, words

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