Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
“Another discovery was that the size and importance of an action is no yardstick of its personal unpleasantness. A big operation which commands headlines may be a dawdle for some of those involved, while the little forgotten patrol is a real horror.”
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 46.
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Context: The sign is usually considered as a correlation between a signifier and a signified (or between expression and content) and therefore as an action between pairs. Semiosis is, according to Peirce, "an action, or influence, which is, or involves, an operation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into an action between pairs".
“An operation is some action one object performs upon another in order to elicit a reaction.”
Grady Booch
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Source: Object-oriented design: With Applications, (1991), p. 80
Theodore Wilbur Anderson
(1918–2016) American statistician
T. W. Anderson. The Statistical Analysis of Time Series http://books.google.com/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=rCOzXIC8ZLkC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11, (1971/2011), p. 1. Introduction; Cited in: American Sociological Association (1974), Sociological Methodology, p. 310
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Norman Mailer
(1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
A Fire on the Moon (1970), Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, First Annual Message to Congress (1901)
Context: The captains of industry who have driven the railway systems across this continent, who have built up our commerce, who have developed our manufactures, have on the whole done great good to our people. Without them the material development of which we are so justly proud could never have taken place. Moreover, we should recognize the immense importance of this material development of leaving as unhampered as is compatible with the public good the strong and forceful men upon whom the success of business operations inevitably rests. The slightest study of business conditions will satisfy anyone capable of forming a judgment that the personal equation is the most important factor in a business operation; that the business ability of the man at the head of any business concern, big or little, is usually the factor which fixes the gulf between striking success and hopeless failure.
Book IV, ch. 14 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/blackstone_bk4ch14.asp: Of Homicide.
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
“Everything known before it happens; and headlines twice the size of the events.”
John Galsworthy
(1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Source: Over the River (1933), Ch. 27