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"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
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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
"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."
Accident
"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
"No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding."
Work
"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."
Experience
"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
"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
"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
"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."
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"It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor."
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"After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end."
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"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident."
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"Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature."
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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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"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."
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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."
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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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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."
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