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“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.”

People Giving Should Littles Jobs Air Mines Standards Labor Should Have Paid Safety Environmental Protection Corporations Regulation Crushed Choke Filthy Environmental Protection

Author:Richard Trumka

“[Harvey] Weinstein appointed himself as the arbiter of your family safety. When was the last time his life was in danger, probably choking on a veal chop. He doesn't need a gun because he has security. He travels in rarified air. His feet never touch the street - feet, mind you, that he can't see because he's a corpulent cretin.”

Needs Mind Lasts Air Feet Streets Security Danger Gun Safety Our Family Last Time Choke Harvey Arbiter

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.”

Heart Joy Nature Pleasure Pay Air Sweet Stones Safety Mood Secure Ease Indifferent Tribute Vacant Kindliness Pleasure Love

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Besides, the sense of safety offered by bottled water is a mirage. It turns out that breathing, not drinking, constitutes our main route of exposure to volatile pollutants in tap water, such as solvents, pesticides, and byproducts of water chlorination. As soon as the toilet is flushed or the faucet turned on-or the bathtub, the shower, the humidifier, the washing machine-these contaminants leave the water and enter the air. A recent study shows that the most efficient way of exposing yourself to chemical contaminants in tap water is to turn on a dishwasher.”

“After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.”

Men Littles Light Reading Wonder Watches Air Serious Accounts Safety Average Accidents Aviation Pilots Minors Equipment License Restriction Obsolete Landing Average Man Blowouts

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.”

Causes Trouble Air Safety Aviation Hitting

Book:The Fun of It

Source: The Fun of It

“For me, when I am on the wire, I do not have a problem of eliminating or blocking fear. I do not really feel fear, although it is a fearful activity to walk in thin air, as I do without any safety device, but I am not fearful.”

Feels Problem Walks Air Activity Safety Block Devices Fearful Wire Eliminating Thin Air

Author:Philippe Petit