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• Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

  Christopher Columbus

  Morning, Night, Islands

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.41

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• Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

  Catherine Crier

  Real, Phones, People

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• Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.

  Jay Leno

  White, House, Actors

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• To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Tangible, Feels

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• It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sea, Investing, Nonsense

  Affluent Society (1958) ch. 11

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• I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Stars, Angel, Hands

  FaceBook post by Cyndi Lauper from May 19, 2014

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• A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

  Matthew Barney

  Sports, Order, Trying

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• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  Gaston Caperton

  School, Students, Program

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• NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nbc, Comic, Brian

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• I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Team, Issues, Honor

  "Christiane Amanpour Named 'This Week' Anchor" by Nitya Venkataraman, abcnews.go.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Past, Literature, Want

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. 2005.

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• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  Harold Brodkey

  New York, Thinking, Reputation

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• Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.

  Virgil Goode

  Country, Baby, Kings

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• Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Real, Men

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• I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Justice

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.71

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• Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Unpredictability, Tolerable

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Heaven, Grace

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• A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.

  Robert Veninga

  Events, Illusion, Crisis

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• The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

  Julian of Norwich

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Tree, Black

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1932, Delphi Classics

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• Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

  Neil Peart

  Song, Heart, Beats

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• A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Rocks, Ships

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Mankind, Collectives

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.155, Pan Macmillan

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• All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Mind, Obstacles, Defects

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• Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

  J. G. Holland

  Wealth, Trustworthy

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