World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

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"We stand now at the cross, in the moments of Jesus’s greatest pain. May we bear in mind the central emotional truth of Good Friday: that the Christian tradition grew from the most wrenching, mysterious, and mystifying sacrifice imaginable—that of a father’s offering of his child."

- Jon Meacham

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"If he did not suffer, if he did not bleed, if he did not feel every bit of the pain of execution as he gulped for air, then he would not be the Christ we know. He was fulfilling his epochal role in history on that cross; he was not playacting, not a god pretending to die. He was the Word made flesh, who was, however strangely and incomprehensibly, full of grace and truth."

- Jon Meacham

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"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

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"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

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"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

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"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

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"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

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