#captain

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

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I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter. ↗

— Sally Schneider

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Was this love in its purest form, unrequited yet all-consuming and unselfish? ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

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The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides. ↗

— Matthew Norman

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