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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Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.
Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.
Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.
Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.
Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.