A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch in a railroad track . . . an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
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It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.
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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.
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Ever reviled, accursed, ne'er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. Wreck of all order, cry the multitude, Art thou, and war and murder's endless rage. O, let them cry. To them that ne'er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word's right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure When each at least unto himself shall waken. Comes it in sunshine? In the tempest's thrill? I cannot tell--but it the earth shall see! I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will Not rule, and also ruled I will not be!
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.
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Such as the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow!...
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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From the wreck of the past, which hath perish
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Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
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Life is like a car wreck, it sucks but you can't stop watching it happen.
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Dad! We've done something awful!'
'Did you wreck the car?'
'No'
'Did you raise the dead?'
'Yes'
'But the car is okay?'
'Yes'
'Well run along then
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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