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After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.
Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
One of the best safeguards of our hopes I have suggested is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them to face them directly not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.
William F. Lynch
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman G. Rickover
... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...
Frederick Marryat
When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.
Hyman G. Rickover
Dollars cannot buy yesterday.
Admiral Harold R. Stark