GO AHEAD AND BAN MY BOOK
"So, yes, today’s self-appointed moral gatekeepers can exclude my novel from school libraries, thus making it impossible for students who can’t afford to buy it to read it for free—but as for shutting down the story completely, I’m afraid that horse has left the barn. ...Added together, hashtags of my name and The Handmaid’s Tale have about 400 million BookTok mentions. Sorry about that."
By Margaret Atwood
10,000 maritime workers needed
Finding the shipbuilders of tomorrow is a business model problem for the maritime industry and a national defense readiness challenge for the military.
"We have 10,000 openings right now (at Norfolk Naval Shipbuilding in Virginia) ... If we don't do anything about our capacity, it's going to be 40,000 by 2030."
Courage, dear heart.
~ C.S. Lewis
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.
~ Jewel Kilcher
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~ John F. Kennedy, Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962.
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?