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"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming."
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"Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle."
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"I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying."
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"Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships."
War
"I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun."
Nothing
"I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years."
Family
"They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact."
Want
"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."
Duty
"I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war."
War
"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."
Force
"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something."
Fear
"It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured."
People
"We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges."
War
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