“Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.” HumansStillsGovernmentProcessHuman BeingsTechnologyRecordsPaperErrorsDenyBackgroundsChecksAgencyManualsGovernment AgenciesBackground Checks Author:James Lee
“I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.” ThinkingGivingHumansFactsUseHuman BeingsWhiteColorPaperSkinsImportanceGive MeMurderPressesImpressionDespiteStakesGlorifyHostage Author:Malcolm X
“Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.” KnowsHumansWellsRealHuman BeingsDealsNumbersKnow HowPaperReal LifeGood Writers Author:Mark Haddon
“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.” PeopleHumansDoeFormSocialWealthHuman BeingsAnimalNumbersStruggleOne ThingPaperClothesLowsSymbolsTitlesHumankindPlatesLicenseBadgesPrecedenceStand For SomethingLicense Plate Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.” PeopleMenWayFirstsHumansYoungHuman BeingsProtectPaperLaborUnionsTheeYoung ManCommunistBusinessmanPapersProtect YouLabor Union Author:Jack Kirby
“My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.” WorldHumansRealityChoicesSocialHuman BeingsDealsPaperRootsScientistThirdsSickFellowsMajorityStructureUglyHungryIceMathematicalCreamSociologyPapersFlavorIce CreamThird WorldUneducatedCohesionFree ChoiceSocial Structure Author:Mario Bunge