A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.
Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.
It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.
This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.