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Letter "P" » ports
«First we just gave them these surpluses. Next we agreed to pay freight on transportation to ports. Then we agreed to mill the grain and package it. The next thing [you know] we'll be asked to cook it and serve it.»
Author: Allen J. Ellender
| Keywords:
freight, freighted, mill, package, ports, surpluses, transportation
«A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.»
«If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever»
«It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
determines, port, ports, The Coming, voyage, voyaging
«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
«No wind favors him who has no destined port.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
destine, destined, favors, port, ports
«If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him»
«If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.»
«But the quincunx of heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
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ports
«All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.»
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