“Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”
Carl Sagan book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there’s a massive sense of accomplishment.”
Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 118
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Context: Taste is one of the weaker words in our language. It means a little less than something, a little more than nothing; certainly it conveys no suggestion of potency. It savors of accomplishment, in the fashionable sense, not of power to accomplish in the creative sense. It expresses a familiarity with what is au courant among persons of so-called culture, of so-called good form. It is essentially a second-hand word, and can have no place in the working vocabulary of those who demand thought and action at first hand. To say that a thing is tasty or tasteful is, practically, to say nothing at all.