William Adams quotes
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“At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.”
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“Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.”
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“From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.”
-- William AdamsSource : Thomas Rundall, William Adams (1850). “Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society”
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“So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.”
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.
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“The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.”
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Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
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