"All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany."

-- Bill Ford

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“Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.”
“No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.”

Source : "Darwin on the Origin of Species". "Edinburgh Review", 3, pages 487-532, 1860.
“This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.”
“I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise.”
“The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.”
“I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.”
“There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.”

Source : John R Erickson, John R. Erickson (1988). “The original adventures of Hank the Cowdog”, Texas Monthly Press
“It is obviously good and proper to respect the U.S. flag, perpetuated with the blood of American heroes. On the other hand, it can be a fatal mistake, a nuking of the Bill of Rights, not to recognize scoundrels who wrap themselves in the same flag to cover up their crimes against the American common people.”

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