"The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right."

-- Eero Saarinen

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“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”
“Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.”
“Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.”
“MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.”
“In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.”
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
“While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.”

Source : "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.
“We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.”

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