Lawrence Beesley quotes
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“When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.”
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“Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow.”
-- Lawrence BeesleySource : Lawrence Beesley (2012). “The Loss of the S.S. Titanic”, p.24, Tales End Press
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“Think of it! A few more boats, a few more planks of wood nailed together in a particular way at a thrifty cost and all those men and women whom the world can so ill afford to loose would be with us today. There would be no mourning in thousands of homes which now are desolate and these words need not have been written.”
-- Lawrence Beesley
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“I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,”
Source : "Aaron Klein Responds to HuffPo — And Admits His Kahanist Sympathies" by Terry Krepel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
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“We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.”
Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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“In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.”
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