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• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  Jack Adams

  Air, Groups, Lexington

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• Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Evil

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• ...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Self, Poet

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• Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Jobs, Hate, Mean

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• Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Secret, Might

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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• Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

  Ernie Pyle

  Funny, Alive, World

  Ernie Pyle (2015). “Last Chapter”, p.70, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Travel, Want, Obstacles

  Henry Morton Stanley (2002). “How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Military, Home, Blow

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• I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Powerful, Thinking, Messages

  "Minister's second chance for stardom" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

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• My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

  George Washington

  Independent, Government, Honor

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Regret, Gun

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• This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying “Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, People, Syphilis

  "Top Gear: Series 8". TV Series, May 7, 2006.

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  Brian May

  Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

  Dick Vitale

  Maps, Domes, Caves

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• Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Long, People, Generosity

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Knives

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Literature History, Civilization

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• In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.

  Julie Burchill

  Husband, Sick, Laid Back

  "Things I've never done before: My first time driving" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2008.

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• The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

  George H. W. Bush

  Pilots, Glory, Worn

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Mother, Home, Men

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

  Al Franken

  Phones, Cells, Years

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

  Stacy Schiff

  Kids, Justice, Aircraft Carriers

  "Of Mama Grizzly Born?". Interview with Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 18, 2010.

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• Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

  Alan Shepard

  Navy, Becoming, Aircraft Carriers

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, National Parks, Nostalgia

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

  Tom Stoppard

  Positive, Attitude, Inspiration

  "There Will Always be a Tree". Book by Jerry S. Beall, 2010.

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