“Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.” HelpingSeemsJobsDifficultStruggleEconomyCreatingMethodSenateColleaguesCreating Jobs Author:Al Franken
“The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.” MenJobsMethodMortalsOfficialsAssumptionCensorshipInfallibleFrailOmnipotentOmniscientErring Author:George Bernard Shaw
“To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.” WayDifferentJobsFormDutyMembersMethodWorkersCharacteristicsOccupationPeculiarPaymentHousewifeTenureSupervision Author:Barbara Bergmann
“Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)” IfsBelieveMayJobsUsedInterestEvidenceMy FriendsArgumentWeightMethodPrisonPunishmentBelieve In GodGovernorsPopeCritiqueCapital PunishmentInterest In Others Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.” PeopleTryingBelieveSelfPhilosophyJobsTeachTaughtBuddhismDiscoveryMethodTrainSelf DiscoveryRamaImpart Author:Frederick Lenz
“A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.” ChildrenKidsJobsHoursCommunicationOfficeOur ChildrenMethodPhonesSettingSettingsTelephonesDiscouragingPhone Calls Book:Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by) Source: Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)