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James Stockdale

"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."

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"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."

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Akshay Vasu

"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

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Akshay Vasu

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."

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Akshay Vasu

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

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Akshay Vasu

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

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Akshay Vasu

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

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Akshay Vasu

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

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Akshay Vasu

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."

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Akshay Vasu

"No man may make another free."

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Akshay Vasu

"I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more."

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Akshay Vasu

"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."

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James Stockdale
"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

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James Stockdale
"We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film."

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James Stockdale
"Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy."

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James Stockdale
"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."

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James Stockdale
"So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out."

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James Stockdale
"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."

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James Stockdale
"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."

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James Stockdale
"There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."

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James Stockdale
"I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double."

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James Stockdale
"In order to do something you must be something."

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