Back to my days in the construction industry, one of the difficult phases in a project is the "Day with the realtor". On that day, somebody from the sales department comes in and inspects the quality of the houses that they will be selling. The first thing that the realtor normally does is take off his shoes and walk around the house. He normally slides his feet, feeling the flatness of floor. Any bump or uneven surface is normally enough to order the contractors to redo the floor finish. Now that you know how the floors are checked, imagine how difficult the entire inspection process is.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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