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• The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Wind, Sky

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Gale, Driving

  Alexander Pope (1776). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Six Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Printed Verbatim from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.75

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• The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Utensils, Judgment, Subjects

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hands, Skills, Afternoon

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.3, PDFreeBooks.org

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• There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Moving, Understanding, Literature

  Thomas De Quincey (1873). “Leaders in literature”, p.5

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• If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Ships, Tone

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• She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

  Homer

  Wind, Sea, Skills

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• I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

  Richard Aldington

  Dream, Silent, Rhyme

  Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”

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• Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Taste, Receiving

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• He knows enough, the mariner, who knows
  Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil,
  What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds
  He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause
  Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave;
  Whence those impetuous currents in the main
  Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why
  The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure
  As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Sea, Heaven, Mind

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.37

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• Don't want to slump over the oars.

  James Genn

  Slumps, Want, Exhaustion

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• Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

  Stuart Chase

  Fashion, Animal, Men

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• There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  War, Reading, Choices

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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  Jules Verne

  Air, Giving, Water

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• The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Ocean, Arabia, Desert

  "Fictional character: T. E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Carry an oar when you drive. Three times I've ended up in water.

  Phyllis Diller

  Water, Three, Three Times

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• Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

  Dick Cavett

  Stars, People, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company

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• The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

  William Shakespeare

  Cutting, Lakes, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.127

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• Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Leadership, Voice, Groups

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Venice, Squares

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sea, Land, Hug

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• Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

  Joanna Baillie

  Moving, Justice, Boat

  Joanna Baillie, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

  Xeno Muller

  School, Hands, Association

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• Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

  Xeno Muller

  Tired, Blow, Thinking

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• In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Religious, Teaching

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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