"The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons."

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Source : Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

Bernardino Ramazzini

#Health Quotes #Hands Quotes #Paper Quotes

“Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.”
“I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.”
“We have so many kids in America to be adopted, but it's expensive. All these families that want children aren't able to because of the financial aspect, and that, to me, is just the most disgusting thing ever.”
“I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television”
“From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.”
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
“You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough”
“It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That's not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don't believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can't do it.”

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