"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."

-- Thomas Friedman

#Marine Quotes #Army Quotes #Technology Quotes

“Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.”

Source : Milton Mayer (1969). “Man v The State”
“For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.”
“One should never be where one does not belong.”
“Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.”

Source : "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”

Source : Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press
“Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.”
“To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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