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“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”

Sun Tzu

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"'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."

Thomas Fuller

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'A community is like a ship - everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm'.

Henrik Ibsen

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“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

Publilius Syrus

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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

Stephen Gardiner

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“Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature”

Henry Albert Ben

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'The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.'

Hermann Hesse

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"Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."

P. T. Barnum

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“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

Albert Einstein

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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

Henry Ward Beecher


How very true!! :nod: