“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.” IfsMadeSaidTwoThreeChanceSeaExampleTenRiversTwentiesFoundationAssumingFinalsCaughtFishesBoatThirtyLakesFishingFortyArrangements Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.” IfsDifferentEarthNationsFateSeaArmyFoundationShipsShakesInvincibleZenith Book:Speeches of William Jennings Bryan Source: Speeches of William Jennings Bryan
“Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.” WorldSeaFoundationSpeciesSpotsMarineSpectacularExquisiteReefsMarine LifeCoral Reefs Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith
“Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.” CultureSeaMediaNewsHollywoodFoundationUniversityNewspapersHeightMinoritiesElitesFoxesMonopolyCnnFox NewsComicalNbcUnbalancedNprPbsLiberal Media Author:Charles Krauthammer
“What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.” FirstsSeaFoundationStrategyCommand Author:George Friedman