Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when... ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which come...s sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ev...er gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While waiting to get married, several forms of employment were acceptable. Teaching kindergarten was for those girls who stayed in... school four years. The rest were secretaries, typists, file clerks, or receptionists in insurance firms or banks, preferably those owned or run by the family, but respectable enough if the boss was an upstanding Christian member of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutio...ns for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Leonid Ivanovich Shigaev is dead.... The suspension dots, customary in Russian obituaries, must represent the footprints of words ...that have departed on tiptoe, in reverent single file, leaving their tracks on the marble....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computers "remember" things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities, graphics, words, etc. Each item is separable..., perhaps designated by a unique address or file name, and all of it subject to total recall. Unless the machine malfunctions, it can regurgitate everything it has stored exactly as it was entered, whether a single number or a lengthy document. This is what we expect of the machine. Human memory, on the other hand, is the invisible psychic adhesive that holds our identity together from moment to moment. This makes it a radically different phenomenon from computer memory. For one thing, it is fluid rather than granular, more like a wave than a particle. Like a wave, it spreads through the mind, puddling up here and there in odd personal associations that may be of the most inexplicable kind. It flows not only through the mind, but through the emotions, the senses, the body. We remember things as no computer can--in our muscles and reflexes: how to swim, play an instrument, use a tool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands ...for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, priva...tes, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »