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Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles De Gaulle / Former President Of The French Republic
Birthday
Smile
Age
Aging
Old Age
Shipwreck
Age Old Age Old
Old
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Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
Publilius Syrus / Writer
Society
Comfort
Shipwreck
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Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
Marcel Duchamp / Painter
Art
Men
Shipwreck
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Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.
Al-Ghazali / Theologian
Lost
Shipwreck
Spiritual
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / Writer
Glorious
Lost
Seeking
Shipwreck
World
Worlds
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He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
Publilius Syrus / Writer
Neptune
Shipwreck
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid / Poet
Men
Calm
Sailing
Sea
Shipwreck
Experienced
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There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
Henry David Thoreau / Author
Consequence
Disaster
Shipwreck
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Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
Michel Serres / Philosopher
Adventure
Boat
Shipwreck
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What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
Charles Spurgeon / Preacher
Jesus
Sail
Shipwreck
Stranded
What If
None
Suffer
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I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.
Ashley Roberts / Singer-Songwriter
Shipwreck
Irish
Learnt
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I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
David Letterman / Talk Show Host
Be Good
Prison
Shipwreck
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon / Former Lord Chancellor
Shipwreck
Casually
Escaped
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso / Painter
Huge
People
Ships
Shipwreck
Die People Will
Ship
Sucked
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Josef Skvorecky / Writer
Bottom
Criticism
Golden
Hygiene
Lovers
Remains
Sea
Shipwreck
Treasure
Writing
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I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.'
Clive Cussler / Novelist
Heard
Shipwreck
John
Paul
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Jean Anouilh / Dramatist
House
Our Lives
Poison
Ships
Shipwreck
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The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
Mark Helprin / Novelist
Best Way
Enemy
Finding Yourself
Flood
Lines
Rainy Day
Shipwreck
Best Yourself Situation
Emergency
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I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
Philip Dunne /
Wise
Disaster
Shipwreck
Life Age Myself
Lead
Grown-Up
Quickly
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
Sylvia Earle / Explorer
Ocean
Artificial
Jetty
Natural
Shipwreck
Structure
Life Time Anything
Almost
Almost Anything
Forms
Over
Whether
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The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Thomas More / Saint
Danger
Pilots
Shipwreck
Stranger
Bay
Channel
Enter
Natives
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Ocean
Danger
Encounters
Sea
Shipwreck
Shore
Storm
Waiting
Avoid
Wait
Hurricane
Lee
Meet
Stands
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Willa Cather / Author
Inspirational
Kindness
Found
Left
Moments
People
Reason
Security
Shipwreck
Afraid
Bottomless
Drop
Few
Malevolent
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All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Government
Association
Character
Fire
Mutual
Party
Protection
Rights
Shipwreck
Against
Agreed
Insurance
Legitimate
Parties
Precisely
Similar
Voluntarily
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There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.
Jane Hamilton / Novelist
Coping
Disappointment
Inherent
Loss
Shipwreck
Life Change Good
Essentially
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