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No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
—Maya Mendoza
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.
—L.a. Meyer / Under the Jolly Roger
Two of the goofiest climate phrases, (1) 'Carbon-free future', (2) 'Fossil-free future'. The first is a future without life and the second is a future without death.
—David Middleton / Watt's Up with That
Two of the goofiest climate phrases, (1) 'Carbon-free future', (2) 'Fossil-free future'. The first is a future without life and the second is a future without death.
—David Middleton / Watt's Up with That
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
—A. A. Milane / Winnie-the-Pooh
If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.
—Javier Milei
You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when no one wants you to answer it.
—Josephus Miller / The Expanse (James S.A. Corey)
Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.
—Joesphus Miller / The Expanse (James S.A. Corey)
Una buona cura per il mal di mare é stare sdraiati nel propio letto.
—Spike Milligan
At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be to use the words 'fuck off' much more frequently.
—Helen Mirren
Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.
—Yukio Mishima / The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.
—L. E. Modesitt Jr.
A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.
—Bernard Moitessier
I have no desire to return to Europe with all its false gods. They eat your liver out and suck your marrow and brutalize you. I am going where you can tie up a boat where you want and the sun is free, and so is the air you breathe and the sea where you swim and you can roast yourself on a coral reef.
—Bernard Moitessier / 'Joshua' logbook entry
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
—Bernard Moitessier
I had to have a change of air.
—Bernard Moitessier
Voting in a democracy makes you feel powerful, much as playing the lottery makes you feel rich.
—Mencius Moldbug
If your path demands you to walk through hell, walk as though you own the place.
—Jason Momoa
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
—Nicholas Monsarrat
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
—Alfred A. Montapert
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