“Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.” Has BeensOrderNew YorkMembersProjectsBusyCaliforniaShakesConstructionEmployersIndianaConstruction Projects Author:Michelle Malkin
“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.” KnowsMenKindHas BeensStillsTwoEndsLightEyeScienceWonderMysteryTypeUniversalBusyExtremesEducatedControlledDelicateOrgansObserversTriflesSense Of WonderSnailStrippingEducated Man Author:Loren Eiseley
“To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade...And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.” NeedsHas BeensHardJobsOrderMillionsImagineEconomicBusyCurrentsDecadesManufacturingNew JobReinventingDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:Susan Hockfield
“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.” MayHas BeensLightFallFailingMissingDangerNeededHighestWake UpBusyPerceiveUnconsciousAbidingPresence Of God Author:Phillips Brooks
“Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves.” WayMeanHas BeensStatesPainJoyDecisionInfluenceSpeechBusyMediumsExcitementAwardsDislikePersuasionPresent DayPartiality Book:Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek