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"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
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"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
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"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
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"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
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"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."
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"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."
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"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."
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"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
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"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
Accident
"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
"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
"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
Experience
"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
"No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding."
Work
"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
"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
"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
"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."
Food
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