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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc58df1 | Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy | Tom Brokaw | ||
| d2ef6ac | What was that World War I saying, "Trust the Lord and pass the ammo"? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone." | Tom Brokaw | ||
| b23bcad | ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF D-Day, I was broadcasting from the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, one of the bloodiest battlefields in American history. The cemetery is at once haunting and beautiful, with 9,386 white marble headstones in long, even lines across the manicured fields of dark green, each headstone marking the death of a brave young American. The anniversary was a somber and celebra.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| aecef23 | reform-minded general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the most powerful position in Russia, the Soviet satellites were moving toward independence. I was in Prague the night the Velvet Revolution separated Czechoslovakia from Moscow's rule and spent time in Poland with the charismatic Lech Walesa, who led Solidarity. Nineteen eighty-nine was that kind of year. Earlier, in June, I finished a commencement address at Tulane University .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 5af5409 | promoted to captain and given command of a company | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 8ff56aa | Healthcare workers are not being shot at, obviously, but they are exposed to dangerous diseases; they lead unconventional, all-hours lives; they are mission-oriented and they work in a hierarchical environment, with the physicians on top and orderlies doing the grunt work at the bottom. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| d26da37 | assisting in the capture of the 21st German army, which was trying to avoid the Russian troops advancing from the other direction. Ko and his | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4081586 | by | Tom Brokaw | ||
| f76f077 | Nazi realm. Japan continued its brutal and genocidal war against the Chinese; and in Russia, Stalin was presiding over show trials, deporting thousands to Siberia, and summarily executing his rivals in the Communist party. The Spanish | Tom Brokaw | ||
| fc43682 | he had saved his country with a pact negotiated with Hitler at Munich. He returned to England to declare, "I believe it is peace for our time . . . peace with honor." It was neither. At home, Roosevelt was in his second term, trying to balance the continuing need for extraordinary efforts to revive the economy with what he knew was the" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 94499ec | great peril abroad. Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, setting a limit on hours worked and a minimum wage. The federal government began a system of parity payments to farmers and subsidized foreign wheat sales. In | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ccde7a9 | book. Myeloma as a description has its origins with the Greek medical genius Hippocrates, who did the earliest known work on cancer, which he called karkinoma (carcinoma) because the tumors often resembled a crab, karkinos in ancient Greek. In modern descriptions, the condition is complex and treacherous: Plasma cells in the bone marrow become malignant and produce tumors, causing destruction of the bone and resulting in pathologic fracture.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| a8b46c4 | landed | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ed4df98 | constitutional revision commission. Simultaneously, Smith was becoming more involved with his profession through the American Bar Association. He met and became close to Lewis Powell of Virginia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg of New York, future justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. He says, "Powell appointed me to a committee called Availability of Legal Services. We made sure people who needed legal representation and didn't know where to turn or .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ec8700a | number of friends I began to understand that this was a mother lode of material that deserved the permanence a book would represent. It was a daunting undertaking: because there are | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 81e432e | One of his first acts was to challenge the established way of doing business by proposing that the legislators lose part of their salary, and pay a fine, if they didn't get the budget prepared on time. His | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4d470a9 | The D-Day fortieth-anniversary project awakened my earliest memories. Between the ages of three and five I lived on an Army base in western South Dakota and spent a good deal of my time outdoors in a tiny helmet, shooting stick guns at imaginary German and Japanese soldiers. My father, Red Brokaw, then in his early thirties, was an all-purpose Mr. Fix-It and operator of snow-plows and | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 6cdf3c0 | Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you--unless you die first of something else. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 8579baf | walked everywhere. He hated getting rides. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 779a64d | His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| da2c207 | I hoped that as time passed I would be able to raise the cancer shade and allow more light into my daily life. Until then it is CANCER EVERY WAKING MOMENT and the realization that it will be with me until the end, by whatever means. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 80796fc | Henry Kissinger once said of this former World War II Marine, "If I had to entrust the United States to one man, George Shultz would be my choice." Schlesinger" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 0cafe97 | Rich got a plan for living. Poor got a plan for dying. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| f6e5064 | The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 01f8547 | On the Cancer Frontier, | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 5e3b56c | no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 9113ecc | decorated with the | Tom Brokaw | ||
| b153be2 | The personal case histories were the most encouraging. A prominent Los Angeles public relations executive has been living with MM for fourteen years, rides horses, and has an altogether active life on drug maintenance. An Arizona man survived MM and with his wife set up a foundation and website for other families bewildered by the diagnosis. I learned, for the first time, that Frank McGee, host of the Today show from 1971 to 1974, suffered .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4caba9f | It was the beginning of his personal crusade to make life easier for the more than forty million disabled Americans. By 1990 he had moved Congress to pass the Americans with Disabilities Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that mandated changes in public buildings, accommodations, and transportation to make it easier for the disabled to function in American society. For Dole, it was his greatest legislative victory. Yet it was also a class.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| c8f97a5 | constitutional revision commission. Simultaneously, Smith was becoming more involved with his profession through the American Bar Association. He met and became close to Lewis Powell of Virginia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg of New York, future justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. He says, "Powell appointed me to a committee" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| efb7f28 | outsider | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 7f2e7b9 | In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 72e8915 | Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done. | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 6d43e6b | The second error is the assumption that business or the work environment is the only tribal affiliation people have. By sheer proximity, the workplace tribe may seem to dwarf all the others, but anyone who works at home will find they actually belong to four or five major tribes--starting with the family and extending outward to the neighborhood, the garden club, library volunteers, church, and the like. | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 9a16301 | Companies hoping to recruit the best and the brightest must demonstrate that they trust their employees with the freedom to work anywhere. They must assume that they're buying talent and dedication, not what the Brazilians call "butt-on-chair time." | Ricardo Semler | ||
| 78e37d7 | According to Ricardo Semler, "Growth and profit are a product of how people work together." | Josh Linkner | ||
| 86e4348 | Disruptors challenge assumptions. They shake the status quo. They are curious and creative. They adapt and improvise. They push the boundaries and shatter conventional wisdom. They'd rather forge new ground than blindly salute the flag of the past. | Josh Linkner | ||
| 336ee3e | The lesson is clear: quickly adopting future trends rather than clinging to yesterday's success is the only way to ensure long-term survival. | Josh Linkner | ||
| 8c077c8 | DHL covered each package in thermoactive foil. The foil was cooled down below the freezing point, turning the package jet black. So the competitors picked up a large, black package without any reason for alarm. But when temperatures rose, the specialized packaging turned bright yellow, with bold red lettering that read, "DHL IS FASTER." Before long, competitors were toting around bright packages in DHL's corporate colors that alerted the pu.. | Josh Linkner | ||
| c70248b | It is no wonder that most companies lack inspiration, when corporate America looks much like a sensory deprivation chamber: beige walls, faded carpet, high cubes, no windows, and bad lighting, and the only artistic stimulus to be found is the office equipment--your bathroom's shower stall is probably light-years ahead of your office environment when it comes to encouraging original thought. | Josh Linkner | ||
| 257bf26 | It's insane to think how fast the unthinkable becomes the normal. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| e68c7cd | Only when I'd see a young girl I'd known in high school, walking down the street hand-in-hand with her returned soldier, did the deeper pain return. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 870e53d | The answer to the mystery is of course obvious but, because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom considered. Egyptian civilization was not a 'development', it was a legacy. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 04d2a55 | Although I have no doubt that the ancients had developed special means for manipulating the physical world - means that our own technological society is sometimes unable to match - I think it is obvious that their main project was a profound spiritual quest & the dilation of the mind through the pursuit of esoteric knowledge. It is in this area, I believe, that we have the most to learn from our ancestors, where their great minds were put t.. | Graham Hancock |