"Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy."

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Source : "USDA Accomplishments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2011.

Tom Vilsack

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped.”
“Ecstasy hates company.”
“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”
“Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,”

Source : "The Rise of the Black Keys". Interview with Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.
“Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.37, Penguin
“When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.”
“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.”
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”

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