The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist ...is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bottom line on bonding with multiples seems to be that if you see bonding as a static event--a moment in time at which you mus...t have eye contact and skin contact simultaneously with two or more infants--you may indeed be in trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottom ...line is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, we cannot rely solely on employers seeing that it is in their self-interest to change the workplace. Since the bene...fits of family-friendly policies are long-term, they may not be immediately visible or quantifiable; companies tend to look for success in the bottom line. On a deeper level, we are asking those in power to change the rules by which they themselves succeeded and with which they identify.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is of great use to the sailor, to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It ...is well he knows, that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct. If we can find out those measures, whereby a rational creature, put in that state in which man is in this world, may and ought to govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon, we need not to be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon,... Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth. I fathom...ed it easily with a cod-line and a stone weighing about a pound and a half, and could tell accurately when the stone left the bottom, by having to pull so much harder before the water got underneath to help me. The greatest depth was exactly one hundred and two feet; to which may be added the five feet which it has risen since, making one hundred and seven. This is a remarkable depth for so small an area; yet not an inch of it can be spared by the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a... sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have wit, use it to please, and not to hurt; you may shine, like the sun in the temperature zones, without scorching. Here ...it is wished for; under the Line it is dreaded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »