The allocation of research money was a political act.
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If you don't write it down, then it never happened
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Not every story started off big enough to notice.
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It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.
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A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.
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Comrade, you can deceive us. Anyone can-for a time. But not a very long time.
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You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.
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Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
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You can act like a policeman or a soldier, but not both.
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Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
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Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
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If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan
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A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.
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Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.
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Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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