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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.
We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.
No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.
Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.
Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.
A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?
Instinct is the nose of the mind.