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An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
Richard Flanagan
Work
Man
Mines
Unskilled
Well
Middle-Aged
Middle-Aged Man
Pays
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.
Richard Trumka
Environmental
Time
Freedom
People
Safety
Job
Giving
Crushed
Live
Too
Filthy
Air
Corporations
Mines
Collapsing
Freedom From
Labor
Get
After
Little
Should
Working
Choke
Paid
Working People
Regulations
Standards
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Roger Maris
Business
Money
Down
Mines
Mining
More
Could
Make
If I Could
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Sam Childers
Little Things
Three
Seen
Building
Back
Spend
Later
Mine
Months
Mines
Out
Something
Small
Small Child
Weeks
Stepped
Putting
Doing
Five
Child
Getting
Just
Africa
Bigger
Little
Land
Helping
Things
Started
Kept
Pull
I'm lucky to have football. My father was 16 when he worked in the mines. That's practically a child, going down the mines.
Santi Cazorla
Father
Down
Mines
Football
He
Practically
Child
Going
Worked
Lucky
When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond mere love.
Susan Vreeland
Love
Extracted
Mines
Color
Had
Mere
Beyond
Learned
Were
Hues
Link
Wheel
Artistic
Substantial
Which
Region
Warm
Ore
Produced
Near
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
Tim Murphy
Work
Dangerous
Miner
Mines
Mining
Pennsylvania
Great-Grandfather
Were
Very
Candles
Lit
Then
Worked
Coal
Mules
Who
Pulled
Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.
Adam Conover
People
Dust
Late
Mines
Enterprise
Poisoning
America
Died
While
Coal
Basically
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