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“Elizabeth was offering the firm valued the company at $6 billion.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“my flamethrower nozzle fit perfectly inside of it.” Woody inserted the flamethrower into the smokestack and held down the trigger. It poured a violent stream of fire down into the fortification. In a single act, he burned the occupants to death and silenced the machine guns that had killed dozens of U.S. Marines.”
― Andrew Biggio, The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand

“Besides Theranos’s supposed scientific accomplishments, what helped win James and Grossman over was its board of directors. In addition to Shultz and Mattis, it now included former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, former secretary of defense William Perry, former Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, and former navy admiral Gary Roughead. These were men with sterling, larger-than-life reputations who gave Theranos a stamp of legitimacy. The common denominator between all of them was that, like Shultz, they were fellows at the Hoover Institution. After befriending Shultz, Elizabeth had methodically cultivated each one of them and offered them board seats in exchange for grants of stock.”
― John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

“… Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” —Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,” 1883 Engraved in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty I believe in America. —Amerigo Bonasera”
― Mark Seal, Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather