William Adams famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
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Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
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From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.
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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
-- William Adams
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.
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