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«No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.»
Author: Horatio Nelson | Keywords: alongside, captain
«One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.»
Author: James T. Kirk | Keywords: advantages, captain
«If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead»
«I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else»
Author: Oliver Cromwell | Keywords: captain, coated, fights, russet
«If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever»
«It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul»
«I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.»
«I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.»
Author: Johnny Depp (Actor) | Keywords: captain, pretend, Weird
«Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.»
«My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.»

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