To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

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I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing. -- Walt Whitman

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

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I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens. -Isoroku Yamamoto

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted. -Isoroku Yamamoto

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Now I was satisfied being in love with the lie. – Kanye West

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