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• Don't wait for your ship to come; swim out to it.
• Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it. -- Stevenso
• It's OK to wait for your ship to come in, provided of course, that it was sent out in the first place.
• God is in my mind and the devil's in my pants. -- Jonathan Winte
• How we apples swim! -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Brother Protesta
• I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. -- Jonathan Winte
• Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
  -- Jonathan Winters in "The Twilight Zone...
• Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Tale of a Tub, Preface...
• You know you should be swimming when . . . You go out of your way to repeat experiences that make your head swim.