"The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind."

Direction, Effect, Wind

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"The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind."

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"To find solace in the wrong area as it seems to be at first is to seek God for direction."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling."

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"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."

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"The life of people who do not know their destiny becomes an infinite chain of activities that in fact do not actually mean anything for their success."

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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."

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"We must be focused on the goal that God has revealed to us."

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"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."

Kit Williams, British Author

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"I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me."

Christopher Atkins, American Actor

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"The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage."

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"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."

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"The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery."

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"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion."

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"Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society."

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"The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy."

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"Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality."

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"The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject."

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