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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. - John Paul Jones
" "It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
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About John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (6 July 1747 – 18 July 1792) was a Scottish American sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolutionary War. Although he made many friends and enemies among America's political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy" (an epithet he shares with John Barry). He later served in the Imperial Russian Navy, subsequently obtaining the rank of rear admiral.
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