In order to do something you must be something.
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It just - the whole thing reminded me of a May pole dance. I was standing there trying to figure out how I could get my oar in and never really did.James Stockdale
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
James Stockdale
They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
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And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
James Stockdale
Another thing I learned was when you're trying to analyze a Communist officer, don't try to analyze him as some sort of a political fanatic.
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