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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the…
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except,…
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…
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They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…
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I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to…
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He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…
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His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
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It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…
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It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to…
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I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
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I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for…
— John Boehner
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Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of…
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for…
— Linda Hogan
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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing…
— Mark Twain
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your…
— Tony Robbins
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Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country,…
— Patrick Henry
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The only objections that have occurred to me are, 1st that you have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting Natura…
— Thomas Huxley
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to…
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