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• They didn’t have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn’t have books, yet what’s this thing in my hand? It’s square, bound paper that’s been written on. Looks like a book to me. (Acheron) Thank you, Captain Sarcasm. How nice of you to join us again. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Book, Sarcasm

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.626, St. Martin's Press

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• Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

  Jane Austen

  Half, Body, Might

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• Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Thinking, Missing

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• Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  Mitch Albom

  Regret, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Practice, Soldier

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.10, OUP Oxford

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• The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them...and royally squander their lives with her.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Song, Air, Sirens

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• I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Years, Radio, Kangaroos

  "Dick Van Dyke - At 87, Life is Better Than Ever!". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

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• I played under many Captains, but Dhoni is the one, who fulfilled my Dream of winning World Cup

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Dream, Winning, Dhoni

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• I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

  Bing Gordon

  Sports, School, Government

  "Power? Thanks, but I’d Rather Have Influence". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2011.

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• I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

  Aristophanes

  Food, Home, Vegetables

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

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• Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

  Robert Breault

  Heart, Fate, Soul

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• It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kings, Jobs

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Pain, Taken, Passion

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• I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Jobs, Team, Leader

  "Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald talks playoff hopes, trade rumors, more in Q&A". Interview with Tom Pelissero, www.usatoday.com. July 10, 2014.

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• I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

  Denzel Washington

  Worry, Flying, Don't Trust

  "Denzel Washington Talks Fleshing Out His Character, Reuniting with Antoine Fuqua, Filming in Boston, and More on the Set of THE EQUALIZER". Interview, collider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

  Frank Grillo

  Block, America, Two

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• Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

  Vance Havner

  Missionary, Boat, Said

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• No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play

  Trevor Bailey

  Play, World, Hindsight

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• That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Soldier, Measure For Measure, Swearing

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 130

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• From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Atheist, Boston, People

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

  Victor Hugo

  Battle, Firsts, Waterloo

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

  Ellie Kemper

  Growing Up, Ideas, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Night, Office

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

  Dylan Lauren

  Ideas

  "How Ralph Lauren's Daughter Is Building A Candy Empire" by David Mielach, www.businessinsider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

  John Terry

  Two, Choices, Proud

  "John Terry reveals his pain over being stripped of England captaincy" by Mark Redding, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2010.

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