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Quote by William Bligh
On the 28th the ships company received two months pay in advance,

On the 28th the ships company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helens, where we were obliged to anchor. – William Bligh

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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. – William Bligh

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The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. – William Bligh

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I’d like mornings better if they started later. – Author Unknown

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I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. – Sydney Brenner

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One morning, just like 9/11, theres going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. – Newt Gingrich

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I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. – Clarence Budington Kelland

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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. – Tom Wolfe

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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised. – Sting

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