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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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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."
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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."
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"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
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"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that."
Beauty

"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."
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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

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

"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
Will

"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

"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

"But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us."
Time

"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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