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Quotes of the Day for 16 November 2004 - Afloat

On this day in 1841 Napoleon Guerin of New York City patented the cork-filled life preserver, an ungainly assemblage containing 18 to 20 quarts of ground cork, sure to keep you afloat for at least a little while.

You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.
     - Charles Bower

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
     - Edward de Bono

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal.
     - Jerome P. Fleishman

Every man's task is his life-preserver.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

When you have to cope with a lot of problems you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.
     - Tom Cruise

Who stole the cork from my breakfast?
     - W. C. Fields, 1880 - 1946

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