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"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."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."
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"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."
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"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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"Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest."
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"Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be."
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"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."
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"Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities."
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"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
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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."
Fear
"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
"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
"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
"It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured."
People
"I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years."
Family
"I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war."
War
"Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships."
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"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
"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."
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