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In addition to the stress that most people face at their jobs, astronauts also face long-term isolation from the rest of the world, locked in a barren environment that they can't leave behind at the end of the day.
In addition to the stress that most people face at their jobs, astronauts also face long-term isolation from the rest of the world, locked in a barren environment that they can't leave behind at the end of the day.
Source: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, chapter 1, page 39. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2010:
The astronaut's job is stressful for all the same reasons yours or mine is—overwork, lack of sleep, anxiety, other people—but two things compound the usual stresses: the deprivations of the environment and one's inability to escape it.

In addition to the stress that most people face at their jobs, astronauts also face long-term isolation from the rest of the world, locked in a barren environment that they can't leave behind at the end of the day (Roach 39).

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The author tries to explain the source of the growing workers' rights movement: "The causes lie deep and simply—the causes are a hunger in a stomach . . . a hunger in a single soul, hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a million times; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, multiplied a million times."
The author tries to explain the source of the growing workers' rights movement: "The causes lie deep and simply—the causes are a hunger in a stomach…a hunger in a single soul, hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a million times; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, multiplied a million times."
Source: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, chapter 14, page 150. Published by Penguin Books, New York 1976:
The causes lie deep and simply—the causes are a hunger in a stomach, multiplied a million times; a hunger in a single soul, hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a million times; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, multiplied a million times.

The author tries to explain the source of the growing workers' rights movement: "The causes lie deep and simply—the causes are a hunger in a stomach…a hunger in a single soul, hunger for joy and some security, multiplied a million times; muscles and mind aching to grow, to work, to create, multiplied a million times" (Steinbeck 150).

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The narrator shares that "his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior."
The narrator shares that "his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior."
Source: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 1, page 9. Published by Bantam Dell, New York 2005:
The native bore both the tomahawk and knife of his tribe; and yet his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior.

The narrator shares that "his appearance was not altogether that of a warrior" (Cooper 9).

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In 1948, the McDonald brothers introduced a process that would become standard practice in fast food restaurants: "For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen."
In 1948, the McDonald brothers introduced a process that would become standard practice in fast food restaurants: "For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen."
Source: Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, chapter 1, page 20. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York 2001:
They divided the food preparation into separate tasks performed by different workers. To fill a typical order, one person grilled the hamburger; another "dressed" and wrapped it; another prepared the milk shake; another made the fries; and another worked the counter. For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen.

In 1948, the McDonald brothers introduced a process that would become standard practice in fast food restaurants: "For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen" (Schlosser 20).

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What is revealed about the narrator when he says, "The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin"?
What is revealed about the narrator when he says, "The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin"?
Source: Dubliners by James Joyce, page 4. Published by Dover Publications, 1991:
The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin.

What is revealed about the narrator when he says, "The fancy came to me that the old priest was smiling as he lay there in his coffin" (Joyce 4).

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According to Benjamin Franklin, "there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride," but I would argue that envy is an at least equal force.
According to Benjamin Franklin, "there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride," but I would argue that envy is an at least equal force.
Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, page 72. Published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1996:
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.