"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."

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Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

Alice Hamilton

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“Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...”
“Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material forgets all about censoring herself. She doesn't stop to wonder if her book is any good, or who will publish it, or what people will think. She writes in a trance, losing track of time, hearing only her characters in her head.”
“I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.”
“Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.”
“It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.”
“Itâ€™s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesnâ€™t think he already is.”
“The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.”

Source : Raymond Aron (2001). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.257, Transaction Publishers
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”

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