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Agnes Smedley

"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

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"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

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Amber Hurdle

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

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"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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Amber Hurdle

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."

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"It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly."

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Amber Hurdle

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

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Amber Hurdle

"All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble."

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"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

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"To set the cause above renown."

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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

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Agnes Smedley
"No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial."

Man

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Agnes Smedley
"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."

Imagination

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Agnes Smedley
"In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."

Politics

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Agnes Smedley
"Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster."

Family

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Agnes Smedley
"But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know."

Work

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Agnes Smedley
"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak."

Conflict

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Agnes Smedley
"So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also."

Man

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Agnes Smedley
"Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!"

Love

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Agnes Smedley
"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

Cause

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Agnes Smedley
"Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys."

Strength

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