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• our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Daughter, Children, Home

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.58, Penguin

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• Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

  Euripides

  Men, Sea, Storm

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• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• This is some fellow,
  Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
  A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
  Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
  An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
  And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
  These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
  Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
  Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
  That stretch their duty nicely.

  William Shakespeare

  Silly, Mind, Crafts

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: The Choice Sayings of His Principal Characters, Analytically and Alphabetically Arranged”, p.38

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• I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

  Tom Wolfe

  Waiting, Forgiving, Never Forget

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• Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

  Brendon Burchard

  Adventure, Positive Thinking, Sea

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• In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics of victimization. Reparation wasn't in the language. Nobody thought about giving the great grandchildren of black slaves so much as $1.98. And all of a sudden the bombs hit, interventionism versus isolationism became a dead issue, and it was us-versus-them in a heartbeat.

  James Ellroy

  Grandchildren, Issues, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

  Abdellatif Laabi

  Intuition, Evolution, Conformity

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• The Armenians will willingly harbor
  revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

  Mark Sykes

  Pride, Race, Giving

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• As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who are working, in their turn, to find a safe harbor from the storms that rage about them.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Adversity, Helping Others, Storm

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• Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Men

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• Well, my message is, is that if you harbor a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you develop weapons of mass destruction that you want to terrorize the world, you'll be held accountable. . . . If anybody harbors a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they fund a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they're terrorists. I mean, I can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world. If they develop weapons of mass destruction that will be used to terrorize nations, they will be held accountable.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Mass Destruction, House

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• I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

  George W. Bush

  Law, Justice, Community

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
  MC's be out like bank robbers,
  Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
  DJ...the getaway driver.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fleeing

  Song: Living In The World Today

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• Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

  Rebecca Wells

  Friendship, Boat, Courses

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs are alien does not seem quite so farfetched. Serious-minded scientists in astronomy and other disciplines estimate there could be billions of planets in the universe, and millions that could harbor life. If even a few of those planets were occupied by technological civilizations, their ability (if not desire) to explore other worlds, such as ours, must be a possibility.

  Don Berliner

  Light, Discovery, Other Worlds

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• Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.

  Newt Gingrich

  Museums, Holocaust, Mosques

  "Newt compares mosque to Nazis". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

  George W. Bush

  Safe Haven, Support, Decision

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• We'll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mean, Long, People

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Order, Law

  Radio Report on the Potsdam Conference, delivered 9 August 1945, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Attitude, War, America

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wings, Bird, Ships

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• The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

  Leon Panetta

  Cyber Attacks, Next, Pearls

  "CIA Director Leon Panetta Warns of Possible Cyber-Pearl Harbor" by Jason Ryan, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

  Russell Simmons

  Mistake, Heart, Racism

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism", www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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