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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

~Arthur Goldberg

Topics: Advisory Columbus Committee Dock Had He Still Would

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I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

~Christine O'Donnell

Topics: About Car Company Decade Dock Had Job Loans Me Never Off Over Pay Reduce Student Student Loans Taxes Took Where Worry Yacht

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I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Bananas Breakfast Bringing Collecting Coming Cook Danish Dawn Dead Deck Dock Fat Fish Flying Fry Kids Laughing Off Our Over Remember Strait Sweet Them Up Us I Remember

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When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are ruthless with their schedules. Not me. I wing it.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: About Air Daily Dock Drowning Feel Like Look Me People Ruthless Schedule Schedules Some Some People Wing I Feel I Feel Like

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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Because Dock Like Seafood Tastes Trouble

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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Ballads Battles Belonging Childhood Defeats Dock Eventually Fuse Had History Insistence Irish Learned Lost Me Nation National Never New New Way Occurred Offer Only Past Power Read Spaces Speeches Studied Tradition Tried Vivid Way Would

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I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

~Eddie Vedder

Topics: Being Cause Connection Deep Dock Feel Grew How Just Kind Like Reality Side Stay Up Want Way Worker I Feel I Feel Like

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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Amount Announcement Building Considerably Discovered Dock End Excitement In The End Initial Jobs Number Over People Permanent Pipeline Some Workers Would

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