There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. - Joseph Conrad

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As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

Joseph Conrad

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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I don't like work. . . but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

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If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.

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As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.

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The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a river. . . . The word is from the Latin villa, which together with via, a way, or more anciently ved and vella, Varro derives from veho, to carry, because the villa is the place to and from which things are carried. . . . Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain. This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. They are wayworn by the travel that goes by and over them, without traveling themselves.

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