"Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!"
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"I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being."
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"In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock."
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"People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor."
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"With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace."
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"What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism."
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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."
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"People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function."
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"Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast."
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"CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'"
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"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
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"Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women."
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"To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred"
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"Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass."
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"To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future."
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"Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!"
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"I always go into a blocking rehearsal with an anchor, with a blocking plan. And sometimes they'll step into the room and they'll be in costume and you're like, "That sucks, that's not going to work. Let's think of something new.""
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"His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much."
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"[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering."
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"I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that."
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