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Dale A. Jenkins
“TF-16 returned to Pearl Harbor on May 26 in good order, with one huge exception: Admiral Halsey, the sixty-year-old commander, arrived back completely exhausted and ill. After six months of intense underway operations, culminating in the fruitless 7000-mile mission across the Pacific to the Coral Sea and back, Halsey had lost twenty pounds and had contracted a serious case of dermatitis. Nimitz took one look at him and sent him straight to the Pearl Harbor hospital. The Navy’s most experienced and highly regarded carrier force commander would sit out the Battle of Midway. The ultimate sea warrior, Halsey would watch from his hospital window as the two task forces departed Pearl Harbor for Midway.”
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

Astrid Lindgren
“- იქნებ სინამდვილეში ეს ყველაფერი წიგნებში წერია, - თქვა კალემ.
- შენ რა, შეიშალე? - გაიოცა ანდერსმა.
- იქნებ ჩვენ სულაც არ ვარსებობთ, - ოცნებით განაგრძო კალემ, - არამედ მხოლოდ და მხოლოდ ბავშვები ვართ წიგნიდან, რომელიც ვიღაცამ შექმნა.
- ჰო, შენ შეიძლება მართლაც წიგნიდან ხარ, - გაგულისდა ანდერსი, - და სულაც არ გამიკვირდება, თუ შეცდომითა ხარ დაბეჭდილი, მაგრამ მე კი - არა, დაიმახსოვრე.
- შენ არ გესმის... - თავისას არ იშლიდა კალე, - იქნებ შენ იმ წიგნის გმირი ხარ, მე რომ შევთხზე...
- მოუსვი აქედან, - გაბრაზდა ანდერსი, - თუ ასეა, შენ ხარ ჩემი შეთხზული წიგნის გმირი და უკვე ვნანობ, რომ ოდესღაც გამოგიგონე.
- საერთოდ კი, მომშივდა, - აღიარა კალემ.”
Astrid Lindgren, Kalle Blomquist, Eva Lotte und Rasmus

John Bunyan
“Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see
A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee?”
John Bunyan

Max Nowaz
“He was sure people detested accountants; they were boring. In fact, he had put down his profession as an airline pilot on the form he had filled in for a dating agency. As an airline pilot you could be away just the right amount of time, when you needed a break from your love life, without facing awkward questions from her when you got back.”
Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

James Allen Moseley
“Judaea was not a forgotten backwater in the Roman world. Jews represented about ten percent of the population of the western empire and about twenty percent of the population of the eastern empire. By comparison, Jews represent only about two per cent of the population of the United States today. Never, since the fall of Judah to Babylon in the sixth century BC until the twentieth century had Jews comprised so large a part of any body politic.”
James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

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