#boon

Ook hij liet een grote stoommachine plaatsen en alles groeide zo overrompelend vlug, dat er echt geen tijd was zich om veiligheid of zelfs een minimum aan hygiëne te bekommeren. In de spinnerijen stonden de vrouwen, meisjes en kinderen in wolken dwarrelend pluk, bijna dagelijks raakten handen vermorzeld bij het 'indraaien' en in werkplaatsen waar men omgeven was van natte dampen, kregen de meeste vrouwen een ziekte die men waterkanker noemde.(...) De vrouwen brachten in de levensgevaarlijke werkplaatsen hun kleinste kinderen van huis mee en lieten ze rondkruipen in vuil, stof en stank. ↗

— Louis Paul Boon

#kinderrechten #sociale-geschiedenis #werkomstandigheden #men

Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father. ↗

— Holly Hood

#family #funny #life #sarcasm #family

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#boon #curse #internet #teenagers

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! ↗

— Jerry Brown

#automation #boon #creative #destiny #done

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #approaches #boone #bringing #commended

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. ↗

— Peter Gay

#boon #creature #disagree #just #kind

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#beg #boon #fate #fears #i

I still can't picture what he does in his every day life when he's not busy with school or misdemeanors or me. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#hannah #business

I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. ↗

— Dean Martin

#hands #i #once #pat #right

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. ↗