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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Abandoned Cargo Carrying Cease Cease To Exist Exist Fails Likewise Long Made Never Overboard Passengers Possibility Preservation Saved Shall Ship Should Throwing Understand Union Unless Without

Keywords: Abandon


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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

~Albert J. Nock

Topics: Cargo Gone He Higher Him His History Knowledge Languages Life Lost Mathematics Much Obliged Only Original Remember Useful Useless Useless Knowledge Whole Will You

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When I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: About Affected Alabama Another Baton Boats Cargo Crossed Europe Feel Growing Growing Up Made Mississippi Mobile Most Them Think Through Travels Two Up Way Working I Think I Feel

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Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

~Allyson Schwartz

Topics: Both Cargo Customs Dangerous Economic Entering Five Interests Last Last Year Million National Officials Only Our Percent Rate States Unacceptable United United States Year

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The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.

~Anne Campbell

Topics: Buildings Cargo Cheaper Current Government Many Potential Practical Purpose Same Sensors Soldier Than Thousand Thousand Times Times Train Used Uses

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We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.

~Asa Hutchinson

Topics: Also Cargo Only Pose Recognize Risk Well

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If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

~Bill Nye

Topics: Beyond Burden Cargo Commercial Earth Invest Launching Low Mars Moon More Must Nasa Orbit People Reach Relieved Someday

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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Any Athletes Baseball Begin Billion Billion Dollars Boxers Capital Cargo Come Cuban Dollars Earth Expensive Field Human Most Other Over Players Represent Ring Sitting Trade World Would

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The re-use of a Dragon capsule is yet another example of how SpaceX uses cargo flights to prove out new technologies that can be later used on crewed flights, and is a key step toward a commercial return to the Moon.

~Bruce Pittman

Topics: Another Cargo Commercial Dragon Example Flights How Key Later Moon New New Technologies Out Prove Return Step Technologies To The Moon Toward Used Uses

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You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Balls Car Cards Cargo Carried Container Data Every Kind Penicillin Police Red Ship Tell Toilets View Walker You Ibm

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