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• Don't wait for your ship to come; swim out to it.
• It's OK to wait for your ship to come in, provided of course, that it was sent out in the first place.
• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. -- Jonathan Winte
• Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast.
  You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes....
• Row, row, row your bits, gently down the stream...
• Your sister swims out to meet troop ships.
• 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...
• COWYHU: Come Out With Your Hands Up