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To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points.I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.
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It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.
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There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.
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Nonetheless the man (Hitler) had a remarkable ability to transform himself into something far more compelling, especially when speaking in public or during private meetings when some topic enraged him. He had a knack as well for projecting an aura of sincerity that blinded onlookers to his true motives and beliefs..
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People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view.
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How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
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All I hope is that it is not too late... I am very much afraid that it is. But we can only do our best, and give the rest of what we have - whatever there may be left to us.
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Another man packed a gold seal for stamping wax on the back of an envelope, with the Latin motto Tuta Tenebo, “I will keep you safe.
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In this day before sonar, a submarine traveled utterly blind, trusting entirely in the accuracy of sea charts. One great fear of all U-boat men was that a half-sunk derelict or an uncharted rock might lie in their path.
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