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‘At the risk of being trite, gentlemen, I would emphasise that the ocean is vast, and that for several hours out of twenty-four the ocean is dark!’
“This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey’s dog, but Mickey is not Pluto’s mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I”
― The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
― The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
“God forgives, the Finns do not.’ This”
― Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40
― Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40
“One of them remarked, in a flat weary voice, "The wolves will eat well this year.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“But the matter just about resolved itself of its own accord, in a tragic and macabre way. We were still at war, and among other things Dönitz could only answer, ‘There is no longer any point in concerning yourself with submariners. Most of them are no longer with us …’.”
― Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel
― Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel
“a prince, so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal, ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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