At Warby Parker, we use the survey platform Culture Amp to take employee engagement surveys that help us become ultra-responsive to the needs of our teams.
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.
We should not look down on our first ancestors.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.
The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.