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“The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.”

Ifs Littles Bits Land Danger Fine Thousand Ocean Little Bit Beats Storm Miles Handle Boat Upset Hitting Sailing Thousand Miles

Author:John Moffitt

“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

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”

Ifs Looks Certain Energy Religious Sea Land Mankind Fine Civilization Office Letters Posts Look Up Addresses Meter Guarded Artillery Post Office Gluten Cheapness

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Kelly Link's prose is conveyed in details so startling and fine that you work up a sweat just waiting for the next sentence to land. This is why we read, crave, need, can't live without short stories.”

Needs Stories Next Waiting Land Fine Details Sentences Prose Links Sweat Short Story Crave

Author:Tea Obreht

“Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.”

Land Fine Ships

Author:Johnny Depp

“I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Giving Should Moving Young Choices Given Sun Land Fine Healthy Available Income Welfare Beggar Hermits Healthy Society

Author:Pierre Trudeau