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In effect, the foreman judged Weil ’s status not just as a worker, but also as a human being.
Robert Zaretsky • The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
Fisher wrote in his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits:
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Pierre Laroque, l’architecte de la Sécurité sociale française après la Libération, n’a pas, quant à lui, légué son nom à une troisième catégorie. Mais ce haut fonctionnaire qui, ayant rejoint la Résistance à Londres, connaissait bien le plan Beveridge, n’en a pas moins profondément marqué le système français. On a ainsi pu affirmer que le système f
... See moreJean-Claude Barbier, Michaël Zemmour, • Le système français de protection sociale (French Edition)
Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
Fermi and the Manhattan Project embodied an age of discovery that rewarded quality over quantity in expertise. In nuclear physics, the 1930s and 1940s were an age of fundamental breakthroughs, and when it came to making those breakthroughs, one Enrico Fermi was worth thousands of less brilliant physicists. American leadership in this era was built
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