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Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.


Henry L. Stimson
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I'm glad I was in the Navy.


Yogi Berra
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I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
Bernard Hill
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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.


Denis Leary
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.


Aldous Huxley
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I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.


Willie Aames
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It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.


Dolley Madison
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.


Jack Adams
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Gustav Heinemann
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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.


Richard M. Nixon
The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.
Sylvia Plath
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No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.


Frank Knox
We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.
John Edward Redmond
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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
Paul Westerberg
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.
Rick Atkinson
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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.


Sargent Shriver
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.


Harry Mathews
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I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
Marc Garneau
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But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.


Paul Berg
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