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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
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"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."
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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."
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"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."
Life
"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."
Society
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
Determination
"It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability."
Family
"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
Family
"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."
Sea
"I have been driven demented in my career."
Career
"You can divide my life into two."
Life
"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
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"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
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