Commoner Word Book

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or book:

    “You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment’s uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven for having given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “My job as a reservationist was very routine, computerized ... I had no free will. I was just part of that stupid computer.”
    —Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)