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Quotes of the Day for 11 August 2003 - Rescue

In 1906 the "SOS" distress signal was adopted as an international standard, and on this day in 1909 it was first used, by the American ship Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. SOS replaced CQD, and neither code actually stood for anything; SOS just is a very distinctive pattern in Morse code. In honor of those who stand ready to help others on the high seas or in their communities, some quotations on help and rescue.

I'd rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're first to be rescued off sinking ships.
     - Gilda Radner

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
     - Herbert Gasser

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
     - Rona Barrett

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
     - Sally Koch

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not act.
     - Sophocles

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
     - Talmud, Mishna Sanhedrin

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