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en Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en She has stood up for flag and family, God and country her whole life, ... She is a lifelong Christian. She believes in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and she believes strongly that America's borders ought to be protected.
  Pat Buchanan

en It's actually from the Sermon on the Mount, and then it was picked up by John Winthrop, who was the leader of the Puritan Great Migration in 1630, and gave a sermon in which he says 'we shall be as a city on the hill, and the eyes of all nations will be upon us.' And it inspired me to look back at people who have been relegated to the second rank of historical players, but who I felt were important in terms of the ideals they introduced to our culture.

en "We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in.

- I claim India for Britain!

They go,

- You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!

- Do you have a flag?

- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!

- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association."
  Eddie Izzard

en He and I have crossed some rough seas in recent months, in particular on textiles. One of us has been steering the rudder while the other has been hoisting the sail,

en If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
  Freya Stark

en He and I have crossed some rough seas in recent months, in particular on textiles. One of us has been steering the rudder while the other has been hoisting the sail, ... I think that we have managed to reach calmer waters. At least I hope so.

en Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

en The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount contain my religion

en We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount

en The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

en I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
  Harry S Truman

en Am I wrong in listening to women who live in Nicaragua and follow the Sermon on the Mount? Or am I supposed to just sit here and believe generals?
  Bernard M. Baruch

en Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.
  Walt Whitman

en We hit a sunfish with the back rudder but it doesn't appear we have done any damage. There's a little bit of scarring to the rudder but that's it.


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