"It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more."

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Source : Ann Romney addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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“I do think we are seeing the definition of what is a carrier changing. You can turn America-class amphibious assault ships into smaller, less expensive versions of carriers. You can equip surface ships like destroyers as well as submarines with not just missiles and torpedoes but drones than can do roles traditionally performed by carrier aircraft, like surveillance or even strike, such as finding and taking out opponents' missile batteries.”

Source : "Trump's Military Ignorance Steams Full Speed Ahead". Interview With Tobin Harshaw, www.bloomberg.com. May 15, 2017.
“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

Source : M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.448, Spectra
“Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.”
“The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.”
“He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.”
“It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.57, Library of America
“Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.”
“I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.”

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