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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a276fd5 | Character is both developed and revealed by test and all of life is a test. | test | Rick Warren | |
| 58baf39 | Again and again workers told me that they are under tremendous pressure not to report injuries. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based in part on the injury rate of their workers. Instead of crating a safer workplace, these bonus schemes encourage slaughterhouse managers to make sure that accidents and injuries go unreported. Missing fingers, broken bones, deep lacerations and amputated limbs are difficult to co.. | meat slaughterhouse | Eric Schlosser | |
| d01aa60 | A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that [...] 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal matter. The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating hamburger meat makes you sick: There is shit in the .. | coliform fast-food feces food-poisoning meat shit usda | Eric Schlosser | |
| 8476ddc | About 75 percent of the cattle in the United States were routinely fed livestock wastes--the rendered remains of dead sheep and dead cattle--until August of 1997. They were also fed millions of dead cats and dead dogs every year, purchased from animal shelters. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 0f556ff | Green had been amazed by their discovery: you could break into a Titan II complex with just a credit card. Once the officers showed him how to do it, Green requested permission to stage a black hat operation at 4-7--an unannounced demonstration of how someone could sneak into the launch control center undetected. SAC had a long history of black hatting to test the security at its facilities. Black hat teams would plant phony explosives on b.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 98a617b | The birth of the fast food industry coincided with Eisenhower-era glorifications of technology, with optimistic slogans like "Better Living through Chemistry" and "Our Friend the Atom." The sort of technological wizardry that Walt Disney promoted on television and at Disneyland eventually reached its fulfillment in the kitchens of fast food restaurants. Indeed, the corporate culture of McDonald's seems inextricably linked to that of the Dis.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 568b0f7 | I once asked a car-crash victim what it had felt like to be in a smashup. She said her eeriest memory was how one second the car was her friend, working for her, its contours designed to fit her body perfectly, everything smooth and sleek and luxurious, and then a blink of an eye later it had become a jagged weapon of torture- like she was inside an iron maiden. Her friend had become her worst enemy. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 49bd12b | It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it's equally possible that he's simply a bored creep looking for a cheap thrill. | Jon Ronson | ||
| a8d9d23 | Maybe there are two types of people in the world: those who favour humans over ideology, and those who favour ideology over humans. I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 544d345 | What we do, when we fuck up, we don't lose our job. We lose our vocation. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 0554d02 | But such a cheap shot from a sibling can never be left alone. | John Grisham | ||
| 4c646ca | I journeyed to a place where it's always raining cupcakes. I didn't need a passport, but I met a lot of interesting people and experienced new things. Even though the trip was a little bumpy, I got there just fine. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 2ca8125 | I'd reply, love doesn't tell time. Love is simple there or it isn't. Every day, | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 268cdc5 | I peel hiss tense fingers on his right hand away from the steering wheel, one two three four five. With each finger, the scowl diappears a little more. when i place his hand on my leg and gently | cade love relax | Lisa Schroeder | |
| dd92428 | Don't get your hopes up. I needed someone today. Darkness said you'd do. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 709c952 | It makes no sense. Please, help me. I need it to make sense. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 88531b1 | I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once. | misunderstandings parents | Lisa Schroeder | |
| ee20f67 | Muchas veces cuando leo un libro, quiero saborear cada palabra, cada frase, cada pagina, amando tanto la prosa, que no quiero que termine. En otras ocasiones la historia me atrae, y no puedo leer lo suficientemente rapido, los detalles pasan volando, algunos de ellos perdidos porque todo lo que importa es asegurarse de que el personaje | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| a5baac0 | The whole school was in shock when he died. Just six months earlier, another guy from school died. Everyone went on about too much tragedy. Want to know about tragedy? Come to my house. A year later, tragedy is still here. Every damn day, it's here. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| c9c74e2 | It's better this way. A little lonelier but better. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 88ab371 | Nothing makes much sense, does it?" she asks. "I mean, really, what do we know for sure except that right now, in this moment, we're standing here, breathing? The rest, who knows? Let's stop asking questions. Let's just stop trying to figure out everything and simply be happy we're here. What do you say?" | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| be38c49 | I grab a small container of glitter. Because this day, this wonderful, beautiful, glorious day just wouldn't be complete without a little, or a lot, of glitter | complete glitter inspirational | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 67dede5 | Perhaps in another era, a trial was an exercise in the presentation of facts, the search for truth, and the finding of justice. Now a trial is a contest in which one side will win and the other side will lose. Each side expects the other to bend the rules or to cheat, so neither side plays fair. The truth is lost in the melee. | John Grisham | ||
| d9acdbd | And I'm sure Theo can always find her. | John Grisham | ||
| dbfcf1c | After a leisurely slide into second, Joe bounced to his feet, looked at Marichal, shrugged, smiled, and spread his arms as if to say, "You throw at me, I'll make you pay." -- | joe-castle john-grisham | John Grisham | |
| 0caccee | I learned a long time ago not to waste time analyzing why judges do the things they do. | John Grisham | ||
| 703c8c0 | I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember. | John Grisham | ||
| 8a90d5b | A hundred years earlier, in Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement. In 1897, the Court, in Bram v. United States, said that a statement must be free and voluntary, not extracted by any sorts of threats or violence or promises, howev.. | John Grisham | ||
| 18e3928 | Okay, let's pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner." "That doesn't work in the South. A male friend cannot have dinner with a female friend if the male friend has a wife. It just doesn't work down here." "Why not?" "Because men don't have female friends. No way. I don't know of a single man in the entire South who is married and has a female friend. I think it goes back to the Civil War." "I think it goes back to the Dark Age.. | grisham men-and-women the-south | John Grisham | |
| e8f9b69 | Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men." | camino-island faulkner fitzgerald hemingway john-grisham old-dead-white-men reading | John Grisham | |
| b63d409 | You're old. You're senile. You're too calm about this. Something must be wrong..." "Wonderful. I'll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room." | John Grisham | ||
| a2a040c | Sistrunk looked angrily at Lettie and said, "I'm allowed to be paid for my time and expenses, plus there is the matter of the loans. When can I expect the money?" "In due course," Jake said. "I want it now." "Well, you're not getting it now." "Then I'll sue." "Fine. I'll defend." "And I'll preside," Judge Atlee said. "I'll give you a trial date in about four years." | grisham legal-thriller | John Grisham | |
| f439341 | A lawyer had to be himself in the courtroom, and if he was afraid, so be it. The jurors were afraid too. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled. | John Grisham | ||
| 40afb21 | There's an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don't have the facts, do a lot of yelling. | John Grisham | ||
| ec31240 | You're standing on an escalator and you're watching the people go past on the opposite escalator. If you could climb inside their brains you would see we aren't all the same. We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They're the rocks thrown into the still pond. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 98b8223 | Are you afraid?" an interviewer asked him after the bombing, and there was a pause, and then Martin Luther King said, very firmly, "No, I'm not. My attitude is that this is a great cause, a great issue that we're confronted with, and that the consequences for my personal life are not particularly important. It is the triumph of a cause that I am concerned about, and I have always felt that ultimately along the way of life an individual must.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| f824a1a | Only that when men found themselves at the mercy of forces too big for them to fight alone, government--their government--help them fight. What were the demands for railroad and bank regulation, for government loans, for public-works projects, but an expression of a belief that after men have banded together and formed a government, they have a right, when they are being crushed by conditions over which they have no control, to ask that gov.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 0bc8073 | his success in public relations had been due primarily to his masterful utilization of a single public relations technique: identifying himself with a popular cause. This technique was especially advantageous to him because his philosophy--that accomplishment, Getting Things Done, is the only thing that matters, that the end justifies any means, however ruthless--might not be universally popular. By keeping the public eye focused on the cau.. | getting-things-done power public-relations | Robert A. Caro | |
| 9dc21f1 | It was Abraham Lincoln who struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life. How true a part? Forty-three years later, a mere blink of history's eye, a black American, Barack Obama, was sitting be.. | Robert A. Caro | ||
| 2403a4f | You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. (Robert Moses) | new-york-city | Robert A. Caro | |
| b46538c | Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to. | conservatism status-quo | Robert A. Caro | |
| c4a871a | Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being "pursued or declared a failure." All my nightmares involve someone chasing me down the street while yelling, "You're a failure!" | psychology | Jon Ronson | |
| 5f9dfae | He wasn't a loner, but he liked doing things his way. Compromise wasn't a priority for him. | Stephen W. Frey | ||
| e4cd3e9 | I never thought I would be left behind." He chuckled. "Eloise Bridgerton, I don't think anyone wouldever make the mistake of leaving you behind." | Julia Quinn |