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Book: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
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  1. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    Not all divers succumb to panic as Drozd did. A great diver learns to stand down his emotions. At the moment he becomes lost or blinded or tangled or trapped, that instant when millions of years of evolution demand fight or flight and narcosis carves order from his brain, he dials down his fear and contracts into the moment until his breathing slows and his narcosis lightens and his reason returns. In this way he overcomes his humanness and becomes something else. In this way, liberated from instincts, he becomes a freak of nature. To
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  2. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    - If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. - If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. - Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. - Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. - Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you. - It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong.
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  3. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution.- WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp
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  4. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    A telegraph on display in a diver's living room, therefore, is much more than a shiny object; it is an announcement. It says, If someone had been to this ship's wheelhouse before me, he would not have left this telegraph behind.
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  5. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    - If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. - If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. - Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. - Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. - Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you. - It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong. - The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said, "I'm already dead-the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself," is the most formidable force in the world. - The worst possible decision is to give up. For four months, Chatterton thought about the right way and the wrong way to live, and he continued to contemplate his principles. As
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  6. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    and when he sat against trees to catch his breath he marveled at how full life felt when a person got to be excellent,
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  7. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    He rolled with the unexpected-and much was unexpected on Seeker trips-because he believed in "No matter what.
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  8. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.
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  9. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    Many dead divers have been found inside shipwrecks with more than enough air remaining to have made it to the surface. It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.
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  10. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.
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  11. Robert Kurson _ Shadow Divers: The True

    When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. It's what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment. The U-Who is my moment. What I do now is what I am.
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