A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.
Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.
The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.
We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.