Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes
You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.
Benét, Stephen Vincent. "Dear Adolf." We Stand United, and Other Radio Scripts, Farrar & Rinehart, 1945, p. 32.
Referring to Richard M. Nixon:
He held up tools made by the Stanley Tool Company which had announced that they were relocating to Bermuda to avoid paying American taxes. The company changed its mind after this sort of publicity.
For many in Western Judeo Christian cultures, secrecy per se is unsavory at best. This has included secret societies and government secrets.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
NASA was trying to avoid embarrassment and obfuscated a great deal of the information around the Challenger disaster. The NASA Administration established a technical scientific staff to do the technical investigation and report to the commissioners. However Feynman, a great scientist and mathematician, did his own analyses and calculations and even data collection and discovered that his results did bot comport with that of NASA or the commission staff which generally accepted the NASA data and analysis. It turned out that Feynman was right and he was able to expose the truth that NASA management had been responsible for the disaster for not paying attention to the data and recommendations to postpone the launch that existed.
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected Benét’s story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales.
