Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners."
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Submarines
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Denis Waitley
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive."
H. G. Wells
Writer
"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
Prince Philip
Royalty
"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
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"With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected."
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"I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded.""
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"For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world."
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