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"It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control."
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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Do all the work you while you still have strength."
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Personal Development

"A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily."
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"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."
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"Work like it is your passion, vision, and mission. Love like you are drunk with love without intermission."
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"Your life content reduces with employment."
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"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"Speaking about work isn't working."
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"From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands."
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"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
Chicago

"No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding."
Work

"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."
Men

"There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes."
Control

"When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor."
Medical

"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
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"Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem."
Medical

"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
Accident

"It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control."
Work
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