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The Bush Administration got it right when it claimed that the world is indeed flat despite media and scientific community criticism. John D. Sailor, a veteran seaman of some six voyages, has reported that he has been to the edge, and peered into the abyss.

- Jack Kelly

It`s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can`t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman`s paper`s, and you can`t get seaman`s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

- Paul Auster

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

- John Motson

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can`t keep goal with hair like that.

- Brian Clough

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: `steady as she goes`.

- Alfred Jarry