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In ticking off the things that weren’t done, it was easy to forget the big thing that was done. Against overwhelming odds, with the most meager resources, and often at fearful self-sacrifice, a few determined men reversed the course of the war in the Pacific. Japan would never again take the offensive. Yet the margin was thin—so narrow that almost any man there could say with pride that he personally helped turn the tide at Midway. It was indeed, as General Marshall said in Washington, “the closest squeak and the greatest victory.

Walter Lord
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Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Isoroku Yamamoto
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
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As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.

Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher
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Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
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Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes

Vicki Alayne Bradley, Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World
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You can accomplish His will, without stopping midway, and even though you may face obstacles, you will overcome

Sunday Adelaja
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When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.

Willard R. Espy, Say it My Way: Ho
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus
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