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Ernest Shackleton: 'We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.'

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Ernest Shackleton: 'Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.'

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Ernest Shackleton: 'After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.'

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Ernest Shackleton: 'If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.'

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Ernest Shackleton: 'Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.'

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Ernest Shackleton: 'Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.'

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Douglas Macarthur: 'Ég geri mér grein fyrir að heilræði er virði þess sem það kostar - þ.e.a.s. einskis. - Douglas Macarthur'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'You can divide my life into two.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'This is the war I fear.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'I have been driven demented in my career.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'I am much more intelligent than you think.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.'

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Lord Mountbatten: 'Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.'

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