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“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it Kansas, but I don't think we're in the real world anymore."”

Thinking World Stills Real Might Atheism Land Positive Atheism Boards Real World Millennium Kansas Jurisdiction Never Never Land

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.”

Men Way Giving Water Responsibility Sea Land Men And Women Instinct Behave Boards Floating Washing Oaks Firmness Sense Of Responsibility Flirtation Seaweed Washing Away

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Joy Turns Society Land Source Drink Travel Ships Boards Ashamed Awkward Sixty Flirting Gloves Soda Brandy

Book:John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

Source: John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

“The other day the plane that Barack Obama was on had some mechanical difficulties and was forced to land. Well, the National Transportation Safety Board did an inspection on the plane, and you know what they found? The bolts on the plane were fine, but apparently Jesse Jackson had taken some of the nuts off.”

Knows Wells Found Taken Land Fine Difficulty Safety Barack Planes Boards Nuts Transportation Bolts Inspection

Author:Jay Leno

“Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.”

Mean Real Today Names Wealth Forget Brain Rights Land Building Source Intellectual Machines Property Brands Boards Really Mean Patents Intellectual Property Brand Names

Author:Charles Handy

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

Men Mean Water Risk Land Rocks Danger Wind Ships Boards Thieves Rats Peril Sailor Pirate

Book:Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen

Source: Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen

“Even when I went to America I didn't work for four years. It wasn't like I came to New York and it was the land of milk and honey. It was just as much of a hard graft. But there's a lot more opportunity nowadays across the board for actors, no matter what color you are, with the Internet and small productions.”

Years Matter Hard America Actors Opportunity Four Land New York Color Internet No Matter What Productions Boards Honey Milk Four Years Milk And Honey

Author:Idris Elba

“I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".”