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"Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people."

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

"Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation."

"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
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