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“When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.”
― Flags of Our Fathers
― Flags of Our Fathers
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
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“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― The Long Fall
― The Long Fall
“Riley had no doubt that an "immediate and merciful act of the Almighty" had saved them from the surf at Bojador. According to him, all of his men believed this too. Later, when a friend advised him to play down this conviction, because skeptics would use it to discredit the rest of his account of the voyage, Riley refused.”
― Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
― Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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