"The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success."

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Source : "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.

Chuichi Nagumo

#War Quotes #Navy Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.”
“You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.”
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
“When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.”
“And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.”
“[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.”
“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
“At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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