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It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

Don't Take 'no' For An Answer, Never Submit To Failure. Do Not Be Fobbed Off With Mere Personal Success Or Acceptance. You Will Make All Kinds Of Mistakes, But As Long As You Are Generous And True, And Also Fierce, You Cannot Hurt The World Or Events.

The Most Dangerous Moment Of The War, And The One Which Caused Me The Greatest Alarm, Was When The Japanese Fleet Was Heading For Ceylon And The Naval Base There. The Capture Of Ceylon, The Consequent Control Of The Indian Ocean, And The Possibility At The Same Time Of A German Conquest Of Egypt Would Have Closed The Ring And The Future Would Have Been Black.

The First Duty Of A University Is To Teach Wisdom, Not Trade; Character, Not Technicalities.