Collis Potter Huntington quotes
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“We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.”
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“Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.”
-- Collis Potter HuntingtonSource : David Starr Jordan (1910). “The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics”
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“I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.”
-- Collis Potter Huntington
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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Source : Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.
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Source : "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
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“...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.”
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Source : Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing
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“She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.”
Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”
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“Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.”
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“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”
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