How much time, approximately, can a worker in a hectic, speeded-up world give to his work and be a sane, all-round, informed, and ...recreated citizen? Unless he lives near his work, due allowance must be made for going and coming. Eight hours for sleep and eight hours for family and social life, education, recreation, and other activities which include, in the case of many women workers, keeping house and clothes in order and taking care of a family, and in the case of all workers, occasional visits to dentists and doctors, paying gas bills and the thousand and one other things an increasingly complicated life thrusts upon even the humblest, seem minimal for the "mechanics of living."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town,... and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I care not for these ladies, That must be wooed and prayed;... Give me kind Amaryllis, The wanton country maid. Nature art disdaineth; Her beauty is her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Corporate America will likely be motivated to support child care when it can be shown to have positive effects on that which manag...ement is concerned about--recruitment, retention and productivity. Indeed, employers relate to child care as a way to provide growth fostering environments for young managers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose mea...ningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lifelong process of caregiving, is the ultimate link between caregivers of all ages. You and I are not just in a phase we will... outgrow. This is life--birth, death, and everything in between.... The care continuum is the cycle of life turning full circle in each of our lives. And what we learn when we spoon-feed our babies will echo in our ears as we feed our parents. The point is not to be done. The point is to be ready to do again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glorious dream of full father involvement in infant care will not become a widespread reality overnight. But it can happen, an...d it eventually will happen,... A lot of progress may take place in a short period of time if we just lighten up, step back, and give the guys a decent chance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A father who will pursue infant care tasks with ease and proficiency is simply a father who has never been led to believe he could...n't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's face it. With the singular exception of breast-feeding, there is nothing about infant care that a mother is innately better ...qualified to do than a father. Yet we continue to unconsciously perpetuate the myth that men just don't have what it takes to be true partners in the process.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »