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Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. ↗

— Franklin P. Adams

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On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. ↗

— Jack Adams

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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. ↗

— Jack Adams

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If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

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In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ↗

— Robert Adams

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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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