An ... important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are ...allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fal...libility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic... Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeed... disheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves..., not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed whe...n the operations by which length is measured are fixed: that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a comp...licated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will, I am sure, agree with me that ... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have... been really intolerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Master, let me walk with thee In lowly paths of service free;... Tell me thy secret; help me bear The strain of toil, the fret of care;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nearly all the bands are mustered out of service; ours therefore is a novelty. We marched a few miles yesterday on a road where tr...oops have not before marched. It was funny to see the children. I saw our boys running after the music in many a group of clean, bright-looking, excited little fellows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »