"People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back."

-- Tom Vilsack

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“In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.”
“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
“I loved Transformers when I was a kid.”
“I dug out the powder blue cashmere cardigan my mother Lisa gave me the Christmas before last, pulled on my oldest, softest Leviâ€™s. Comfort clothes; the next best thing to a hug from a warm, living body. Lately there had been a shortage of hugs in my life. Lately there had been a shortage of warm, living bodies.”
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
“That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.”
“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 03, 2015
“Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions.”

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