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Rockefeller himself stood with Andrew Carnegie (steel), Philip Armour (meat products), and James Buchanan Duke (cigarettes) as the richest and most powerful commodity producers on the continent.
“When passions rise may reason be the guide.”
― The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861
― The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861
“A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.”
― Blue Mars
― Blue Mars
“did you realize every time you speak a query into Apple’s Siri artificial intelligence agent, your voice recording is analyzed and stored by the company for at least two years?”
― Future Crimes
― Future Crimes
“He watched a two-hour block of Fox News, and then most of the two-hour-long blocks of MSNBC and CNN that he had TiVo’d. He raged at the coverage as top aides came in and out—Priebus, Bannon, Kushner, McGahn, Cohn, Hicks and Porter. Why was Mueller picked? Trump asked. “He was just in here and I didn’t hire him for the FBI,” Trump raged. “Of course he’s got an axe to grind with me.” “Everybody’s trying to get me,” the president said. “It’s unfair. Now everybody’s saying I’m going to be impeached.” What are the powers of a special counsel? he asked. A special counsel had virtually unlimited power to investigate any possible crime, Porter said.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“Trump’s memory needed a trigger—something on his desk or something he read in the newspaper or saw on television. Or Peter Navarro sneaking into the Oval Office again. Without something or someone activating him, it might be hours or days or even weeks before he would think, Wait, we’re going to withdraw from that, why didn’t we do that? Without a trigger, it conceivably might never happen.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
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