"Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on."

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Source : "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

Richard Trumka

#Jobs Quotes #Air Quotes #Safety Quotes

“There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.”

Source : "The Kindle threat". Quintin Jardine's blog, September 29, 2010.
“I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.”
“We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.”
“One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.”
“I'm sorry." About what?" He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2005). “Smoke and Shadows”, p.200, Penguin
“Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.”
“Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes â€“ NOT information about drills!”
“I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.”

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