#margin

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#domestic #earn #earning #hours #increased

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it ↗

— Robert Musil

#change

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#broken #doubt #expectancy #flowery #hesitation

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. ↗

— David Halberstam

#brought #chandler #did #excellence #grand

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#backbone #contend #disasters #economic #economy

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#been #cuts #generations #lowest #marginal

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#being #feeling #flourish #margins #movements

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#continue #current #drop #fallen #female

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. ↗

— Cornel West

#concern #justice #love #margins #poor

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. ↗

— Clayton M. Christensen

#marginal-cost-analysis #infidelity