"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."

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"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."

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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."

Business

"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."

Victory

"You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also."

Nothing

"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing."

Work

"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with."

Woman

"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat."

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"By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that."

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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."

Family

"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."

Poor

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death."

Death