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“In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilitated and marshaled himself, despite severe pain, to press on with his career in politics. Eleven years later, delivering his message of confidence and optimism, he was elected President of the United States. ”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“Yamamoto sensed a feeling of culmination about the huge success of the first strike, and the same incisive intuition that guided his brilliant moves at the gaming tables told him what the next move on the bridge of Akagi would be. In (Vice Admiral) Nagumo he knew his man. Nagumo had never been committed to the Pearl Harbor mission. He had not been Yamamoto’s choice to command the Striking Force; his assignment was the decision of the Navy Ministry in Tokyo, based on seniority. While the exultation of the officers and sailors on his staff swirled around him, Yamamoto sat quietly. Finally, he fixed a steely gaze on his chief of staff, and in a low, intense voice: “Admiral Nagumo is going to withdraw.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“Admiral McPhearson put his arms around Anderson and hugged him. At that moment, admiral and lieutenant became father and son.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

“The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence
over the violence of the enemy�

Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC”
― Ben Bryant

“The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.”
― Arthur Nicholson, Hostages To Fortune: Winston Churchill And The Loss Of The Prince Of Wales And Repulse

“That is not the Dryad. It has three masts.'

'There is no concealing anything from the Doctor,' said Jack, and turning directly to him he went on, 'Give you joy of our prize: we took her in the night.'

'Breakfast is disgracefully late,' said Stephen.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour

“All greatness comes from suffering.”
― Naval Ravikant

“### Pauvreté de la sagesse

Je hais les sages pour leur complaisance, leur lâcheté et leur reserve. J'aime infiniment plus les passions dévorantes que l'humeur égale qui rend insensible au plaisir comme à la douleur. Le sage ignore le tragique de la passion et la peur de la mort, de même qu'il méconnait l'élan et le risque, l'héroisme barbare, grotesque ou sublime. Il s'exprime en maximes et donne des conseils. Le sage ne vit rien, ne ressent rien, il ne désire ni n'attend. Il se plaît à niveler les divers contenus de la vie, et en assume toutes les conséquences. Bien plus complexes me semblent ceux qui, malgré ce nivellement, ne cessent pourtant de se tourmenter. L'existence du sage est vide et stérile, car dépourvue d'antinomies et de désespoir. Mais les existences que dévorent des contradictions insurmontables sont infiniment plus fécondes. La résignation du sage surgit du vide. et non du feu intérieur. J'aimerais mille fois mieux mourir de ce feu que du vide et de la résignation.”
― Emil M. Cioran, Oeuvres

“Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah’k’hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“Foundations are key. It's much better to be at 9/10 or 10/10 on foundations than to try and get super deep into things. You do need to be deep in something because otherwise you'll be a mile wide and an inch deep and you won't get what you want out of life. You can only achieve mastery in one or two things. It's usually things you're obsessed about.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“It follows then as certain as night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it everything honorable and glorious.”
― George Washington

“I had begun to think that there might be something monumental here. A vague element of the mythical. The velocity of who we are. Every scrap of existence colliding inside the tubes: the weak force, the strong force, the theory of everything. And, of course, every inanity was whirling inside there too. All of it tumbling in unison along the sea floor.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“If the ocean was a bank, they’d have saved it a long time ago.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“Our lives, even the unruptured ones, bounce around on the sea floor. For a while we might brush tenderly against one another, but eventually, and inevitably, we collide and splinter.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“I suppose we go out to sea because we want, eventually, to come home. I know this now, but it was new to me then. The best way to experience home is to lose it for a while. Then, when it is gone, you can know what it is. You can yearn to return to it. It is a form of wounding. You welcome the scar so it will remind you of where you once were.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“It was a boat, a small boat, an older boat, not much more than the length of a couple of blue whales, and there was one intention, the story immemorial: to survive the harpoon, skip the vortex, complete the job, and get back to where we came from.”
― Colum McCann, Twist

“I was hooked on the plot of the waves.”
― Colum McCann, Twist