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"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement."
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"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."
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"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
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"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift."
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"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
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"All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."
Time


"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
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"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
Poor


"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us."
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"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
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"The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth."
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"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves."
People


"Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average."
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