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    Quote Originally Posted by IndiReloaded View Post
    Hiroshima... *and* Nagasaki...

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    Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo said "awakened a sleeping dragon."

    They knew exactly what they were doing. The US actually was attempting to stay out of that war, but Japan pushed us. If you're going to retaliate, do it ten fold better, that will crush morale and squash any counter attack.

    "What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power.
    You fear your own anger, the drive to do great and terrible things."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cbrider View Post
    Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo said "awakened a sleeping dragon."

    They knew exactly what they were doing. The US actually was attempting to stay out of that war, but Japan pushed us. If you're going to retaliate, do it ten fold better, that will crush morale and squash any counter attack.
    "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone."

    -- Ender's Game (after killing a bully who was tormenting him)
    Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by IndiReloaded View Post
    "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone."

    -- Ender's Game (after killing a bully who was tormenting him)
    Can you turn that into an example based off of Where's Waldo? That's my kind of reading.

    "What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power.
    You fear your own anger, the drive to do great and terrible things."


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    E, you go get this book. Its excellent and you will love it. Trust me. My son read it when he was 7, if he can, you can.
    Second thoughts can generally be amended with judicious action; injudicious actions can seldom be recovered with second thoughts.
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    I've seen and heard of it, I just am not a huge book reader. Now bike magazines...I can pour over those all day long.

    "What you really fear is inside yourself. You fear your own power.
    You fear your own anger, the drive to do great and terrible things."


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