"When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots."

-- Robert M. Gates

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“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time...”
“He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.”
“The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.”
“I could fall for you in a heartbeat”
“I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.”
“Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to anotherâ€™s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.”
“The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.”

Source : Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins
“We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.”

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