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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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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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In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I…
— Lucy Irvine
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the…
— Bertolt Brecht
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A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of…
— Michelle Forbes
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Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it,…
— Mykelti Williamson
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Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.
— Sam Lipsyte
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water;…
— Erik Satie
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of…
— James A. Michener
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to…
— Viktor Korchnoi
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I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and…
— Si Robertson
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For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.
— Nikki Grimes
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I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes to get me going. My…
— Jennifer Morrison
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