"Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century."

-- Dick Thornburgh

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“In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.”

Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.51, Pearson Education
“There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .”
“You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.”
“But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.”

Source : "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Bulgaria attack on Israelis will be avenged". "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. July 30, 2012.
“You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.”
“[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.”
“A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
“If I don't need the money, I don't work.”

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