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Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

Arthur Gordon Webster
Adversity, Looks, Tides

For me, it was a mission on the hill to sensitize people, because they don't know Muslim immigrants. And for the most part, a lot of us just keep our heads down. But if I can engage someone in conversation, someone who maybe does support Donald Trump, or at least isn't speaking out against him, and I can show him the fear that I have, then maybe I can turn that tide.

Andrew Aydin
People, Support, Tides
Source: www.mtv.com

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Anderson Cooper
People, Tides, Visible
"Anderson Cooper Comes Out: ‘The Fact Is, I’m Gay" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Aimee Friedman
Ocean, Past, Tides

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

Agnes Repplier
Strong, Giving, Tides
Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

Adam Hochschild
Rising, Tides, Nasty
Source: www.macleans.ca

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.

Abraham Lincoln
Humble, Pairs, Tides
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, James Ford Rhodes, John Esten Cooke (2017). “CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders: Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions”, p.797, Madison & Adams Press

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