Captain James Cook

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    Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
    Jerome Cady, U.S. screenwriter, and Lewis Milestone. Captain Ross (Dana Andrews)

    There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
    To boille the chiknes with the marybones.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)