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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 greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and…
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When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know,…
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and…
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If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing…
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Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
— Malcolm X
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my…
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I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am…
— Muhammad Ali
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On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an…
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Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
— David Rakoff
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Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.”“because I have the members,…
— Yoochun
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