. . . without a Respectable Navy, Alas America! - John Paul Jones

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Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

John Paul Jones

. . . without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

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I have not yet begun to fight!

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