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JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain

JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain is a computer game created by Knowledge Adventure.

Dialogue

 * Sign-In Bot: Well! Hello! We've been waiting for you. Please sign in. We've got a busy day ahead. If you're new to this school, please use the keyboard to enter your name. If you're already enrolled, select a name by clicking on it. If you don't see your name, use the arrows to scroll up or down the list. When you're finished, click on the 'Enter' button.
 * [If the player clicks on the monitor on the top right screen]
 * Sign-In Bot: If you see your name on the list and want to continue your game, please click on it. If you do not see your name, or you want to start another game, please enter a name using your keyboard.
 * [If the player types his/her name and clicks on the enter button]
 * Sign-In Bot: Please enter, and have a seat. Sit up straight. No slouching in this classroom. Is that gum in your mouth? Sorry, my mistake.

 * [The player moves the cursor to the TransQuizzer on a table. The player then clicks it to pick it up. Suddenly, the lights dim, and the objects in the classroom start moving around by themselves, a few seconds later, a robot crashes through the window of the classroom. He grunts as he gets up]
 * Botley: If Professor Sparks have meant for me to fly, he'd have given me wings. But what could I do? This mission is too important. [he notices the player and jumps in surprise, he then smiles] You startled me. I didn't think anyone would be here. Hey you've got that uh, the, the uh TransQuizzer. Now be careful with that thing. Don't drop it! The future of the world may depend on that little machine in your hands. That is if I'm not too late. There's just so little time and so much to do.

 * Botley: Phew! Sorry about the landing. I wasn't programmed to fly. Well, this is it. Home sweet home. Polly should be inside. Um, as I was saying, this is the Professor's Mountain. Polly should be inside, and I just bet she's watching us now.

 * [The TV screen goes up and Polly's monitor turns on.]
 * Polly: Oh, Snotley, you're back! I've been looking for you.
 * Botley: My name is Botley.
 * Polly: I can see you've brought help, and you've got the TransQuizzer!
 * Botley: [aside, to the player] She knows we need it to save the world.
 * Polly: Didn't my father teach you it's rude to tell secrets, Rotley? Well, I suppose he's told you his side of everything, but what does he know? Today when I was at school, the teacher handed us a surprise quiz. I already knew all the answers, and she knew I knew them. So just to have some fun, I made up my own answers to that dumb old quiz. But instead of laughing like she was supposed to, she gave me a big, fat zero! I felt faint and short of breath! No one's ever given me a zero before!
 * Botley: Well, that's not quite true, Polly. I remember just two weeks ago.
 * Polly: Be quiet, Plotley, this is my story! Anyway, after getting my first zero ever, I got the most brillant idea! Instead of settling for a bad grade, I changed history to match my answers.
 * Botley: So you sent 25 of your father's robots back in time to change history?! How could you do that, Polly?!
 * Polly: Oh, that was the easy part, since Daddy just invented that "Handy Dandy Time Machine" upstairs. Everyone should have one. I just marched those robots into the machine, pushed a few buttons, and voila! Unfortunately, there's still one more question, the extra credit question, and it's super hard! That's why I've been looking for you, Notley.
 * Botley: That's Botley! And I want nothin' to do with your plan, Polly, just bring those robots back! Don't you see? You could destroy us all!
 * Polly: [mockingly] You could destroy us all! [normal] P-lease, Spotley, if you're so scared, why don't you just bring them back yourself? You've got my TransQuizzer; now all you need are the questions on my history quiz. To make it so easy even you can figure it out, I'll leave the disc with the first part of the test on the first floor. That's 5 questions total. Just plug that disc into the TransQuizzer, then figuring out where I sent the robots should be simple. But I'm warning you: if I don't get 'em all back soon, I'm sending you off to do the extra-credit question. Oh, and by the way, you have to get in the house first, and I changed the locks. Good luck! [Polly's monitor turns off and the TV screen goes down.]
 * Botley: [to the player] Oh, that's just great! How are we gonna get into the mountain?

 * Miss Winkle: Now, today quiz is all about inventions and discoveries. Something you should know plenty about Polly. [gasps] But no fair asking your father for help. [laughs]
 * Botley: See? Everyone's impressed by the professor.
 * Miss Winkle: There are 25 questions total, Polly. 5 on each of the 5 disks I passed out to you and the rest of the class. So sit up straight, put on your thinking cap, and select your first question.

 * [The TV screen goes down and Polly's monitor turns on.]
 * Botley: Polly, you know I've been programmed to clean up your messes, and that includes bringing back my robot pals. I know you won't tell me where they are! But how about a little hint?
 * Polly: Well, it just so happens, Sotley, that I realized long ago that you try to mess up your work. So I covered my tracks by hiding clues all over the mountain. Four clues total. You and your friend will have to find and collect them all, and even if you can find them all, which I highly doubt you can, you will still have to go to daddy's time machine and figure out where I sent the robot, if you expect to beat me. Oh, by the way, you know how daddy feels about amateurs going into the time machine room, it's a very sensitive piece of equipment, you know. So, before a hunk of rusty bolts like you can get inside, you'll have to earn a bunch of invention points. A thousand of them should just about do it for starters.
 * Botley: Well, Polly, okay. It looks like we have no choice to play by your rules as unfair as they are. Just tell us what we need to find for this mission.
 * [The TV screen static sound]
 * Polly: Relax, Cutley, it won't be so bad. I sent Russian robot, Cosmo-Bot to put me in the center of the universe. You can get him back if you find these four clues. A pig, a sundial, a postage stamp, and a dollar bill. But, one messed up the good thing.
 * [Polly's monitor turns off and the TV screen goes up.]
 * Botley: Cosmo-Bot and I never used to get along, but now were pals. I can't believe Polly reprogrammed him for a selfish purposes. We have to find those clues and get Cosmo-Bot back. Finding the clues should be a little less hopeless with my powerful sensoring device. Professor Spark cooked me up this way so I could better keep an eye on Polly. I can monitor every nook and cranny of the mountain. SHH...! I'm gonna try to sense this area out for clues. [sensoring device blinking] Hey, we're in luck! I'm sensing a mission clue in the Painting Gallery. There's another mission clue in the Professor's virtual collection. That's in the art gallery!

 * Botley: Hey, Bothoven!
 * Bothoven: Huh? Hello? Who's there? Oh, Botley, it's just you. You should have called my name instead of just scuffling around out there.
 * Botley: Uh, sure. Okay, listen, Polly's up to no good again, and we're trying to stop her. We're having trouble with this lock. Can you help us?
 * Bothoven: Huh? Speak up! Don't mumble.
 * Botley: CAN - YOU - HELP - US?!
 * Bothoven: Now, Botley, If I just gave you the answers, Polly would reboot me in a heart beat. But if you're really having trouble figuring out one of the words, click on the button next to it and I'll see what I can do. Good Luck!

 * Maestro: Music has such civilized instruments, although her voice... let's just say it's not music to my ear.
 * Polly: I heard that, Maestro! You just don't appreciate my instruments. [sings Wagner's "Die Walkure" out of tune]
 * Maestro: Well, Polly! You do have... quality.

 * Botley: Huh? I'm not picking up a mission clue by from the biosphere! You still want to go exploring?
 * Polly: Poor little Gutley, no mission clue inside! Boo-hoo-hoo! If it makes you feel any better, I have hidden some invention points here. So why don't you look for them!

 * Botley: Don't forget! You said you give us some hints once we get inside the biosphere.
 * Polly: Didn't I say I would? Now get out of here before I change my mind!
 * Botley: "Moment of truth" time. Click on the "launch" button if you want to launch an Explorer.

 * Polly: There's a time limit on this question. You have one hundred million years starting...now!

 * Monty Monitor: Welcome to a special edition of Pollywood Squares! What's so special about it? Well, in addition to sending you back in time to rescue Flip, the high-diving robot, we're also giving away a new car! Just kidding.

 * Botley: Ran out of time! Click on the microscope to try again.

 * Botley: Great work! We freed some invention points! Put them in the inventory and let's get out of here!

 * Polly: I didn't hide any clues in the collection. But if your friend really wants to browse through daddy's art, there's some invention points to make it worth their time. Just figure out which of his great works I hid them in.
 * Botley: Give us a hint, Polly.

 * Botley: Here we are at the Painting Gallery! Any sign of Polly?
 * Polly: I know art, and I know what I like! So you better paint exactly where I tell you to paint if you want to earn some extra invention points. You think you can manage this?

 * Botley: They say music cues the savage beast. Let's hope it works on Polly.
 * [The TV screen goes down and Polly's monitor turns on.]
 * Polly: I'm no savage beast, but I am a savage kid. So if you want some more Invention Points, you'll have to play this piece of music. [the piano top door opens and the music tablet goes up] Make sure nothing's off key, please!
 * [Polly's monitor turns off and the TV screen goes up.]
 * Botley: Click on the music tablet to play that tune.

 * Botley: Hey, you should be playing Carnegie Hall! I mean it, and we've won more Invention Points! Put them in your inventory, then let's move on!

 * Botley: If we don't start a mission, pronto, Polly's gonna win! My suggestion is to leave the gallery, go back to the first floor, and start a mission.

 * Botley: Think of each one of those glowing buttons as representing, a poor lost and scared robot. We can't go back to an old mission when there's so much at stake!

 * Ms. Winkle: What was the first breakfast cereal made from?
 * Polly: The first cold cereal, Miss Winkle, was made with ice cream to keep it cold. For flavor, they added cold water salmon. On top of that, they added the pièce de résistance; frozen worms! The worms gave the salmon something to eat. Mmm, mmm, mmm!
 * Ms. Winkle: That's exactly right, Polly! Oh, I still remember that original breakfast cereal; salmon and frozen worms. Hmm, some things you just never outgrow. I must confess, though, that my very favorite cereal is crunched octopus oats with jellyfish bits. Mmm, makes me hungry just thinking about it!
 * Botley: GROSS! Look what Polly's cooked up now! If we don't do something fast, kids all over the world will be pouring milk all over bowls filled with cold fish and worms. No one will eat breakfast anymore, and breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

 * Botley: My sensors indicate that Polly hasn't left any mission clues on this floor. I suggest we go check out another floor.

 * Botley: Oh, I'm sorry, but I'm not getting any clue leadings here. Let's check out another floor!

 * Botley: Nuts! No mission clues here. Let's try another floor!

 * Botley: Uh-oh! I'm picking up vibrations to tell me that Polly has launched another one of the mission clues into space.
 * Polly: So you and your friend really like the thrill of adventuring to the brink of nothing this.

 * Polly: Egbert likes to play ping-pong with the eggs laid by this specimen.
 * Egbert: What? Harm my babies' babies? Perish the thought!

 * Botley: Don't forget Polly's hint! Which specimen is used to make ping-pong balls?

 * Botley: Nope, nothing here! We need to look on the other floors.

 * Botley: Huh, I'm not getting any leading on this floor! Let's check out another floor.

 * Botley: Out of luck! There are no mission clues here! Let's try another floor.

 * Botley: What a drag! This floor is clueless! Let's go search somewhere else.

 * Botley: No clues on this floor! Let's go search the lower floors.

 * Botley: Nope! Out of Luck! We should search for clues on the other floors.

 * Botley: Polly didn't hide a mission clue here, but the professor's spaceship is missing! Maybe she launched it with some spare invention points.
 * Polly: Get ready for a fun pack thrill ride to the bottomless pits!
 * Botley: So Polly, where'd you send it?
 * Polly: Just for you, a little hint! Let's see if your fast enough to save it!
 * Botley: When will she stop? Why if I was her father? Hmm! Just click on the telescope and I'll help you save the world.

 * Botley: There's no mission clue here, and notice the missing spaceship? I wouldn't be surprise if Polly launched it with some spare invention points.
 * Polly: I hope you and your buddy would drive the void because that's where you headed!
 * Botley: Come on Polly! Give us an idea where to look.
 * Polly: I guess it's time for another space odyssey, Cotley, and here's your clue!
 * Botley: I think you know what to do! Click on the telescope and we'll get started!

 * Botley: Well, since there's no mission clue to be found here, we can always try to track down the missing spaceship, to see if maybe Polly launched some invention points.
 * Polly: So you and your friend really liked the thrill adventuring to the brink of nothing this!
 * Botley: Give us a fighting chance, Polly! Where did you send it?
 * Polly: Here's a hint! Just don't waste time sitting there looking stupid or you'll never be able to retrieve it!
 * Botley: I have no idea what's in stored for us this time, but we have no choice! Click on the telescope.

 * Botley: Hey! We're back at the maze, and look, there's another box down there! Should we investigate to see if Polly left a mission clue here?
 * [The TV screen goes down and Polly's monitor turns on.]
 * Polly: Sorry, Botley, that box doesn't have one of your precious mission clues. Just a few invention points I had lying around at my room. I've got loads of invention points because I'm so smart. But maybe you and your friend should just leave while the leaving's good.
 * [Polly's monitor turns off and the TV screen goes up.]
 * Botley: Good thing I'm programmed to put up with her, otherwise it just might explode! Huh? But we have to ignore her. Just program the robot so he makes it safely to the box.

 * Botley: We've already completed that mission! Select one of the glowing buttons to head out on a new one.

 * Ms. Winkle: What was the world's first chewing gum made from?
 * Polly: I'd love it if the whole world popped super glue into their mouths and started to chew. I'd be the only one left at the top. Everyone would have to listen to me.
 * Ms. Winkle: Oh, yes, Polly, that's exactly right! The world's first chewing gum...was made with super glue.
 * Botley: Oh, great, that's all the world needs; everyone's mouth glued shut except for Polly's. If it were the other way around, I'd be tempted to leave her be, but, as it is, eardrums around the globe are depending on us.

 * Botley: Nope. Not there! I guess we'll have to go back to the shrinking machine and try again. Click anywhere.
 * [Screen fades in after Black, and Botley shrinks back to normal size.]
 * Botley: Huh! That was sure we've find the clue in that one. Let's go back over Polly's hint.

 * Ms. Winkle: What was the outside of the world's first sausage made of?
 * Polly: Daddy's mother put everything she make on her own sausages. They were so undifferences. Daddy's mother they tasted like their old socks. So I guess that sausages were made with... Old Socks!
 * Ms. Winkle: I'm sorry, Polly. Sausages was being made for centuries before socks was invented. Sausages was being made for the intestines of animals.
 * Botley: Ah, been here done that! Pick a mission we haven't completed.

 * Polly: Ha! There's no mission clue in here, Potley! But Mort looks hungry, and you look stupid! I bet if you feed Mort, he'll give you some invention points he need.

 * Polly: Listen, there's no mission clue in here, Botley! But why don't you make yourself useful and feed Mort. He's got some invention points, and we all know that you need some of those.

 * Polly: Too bad, there's no mission clue in here, Notley! But give Mort what he wants to eat and he'll tip you generously with Invention Points!

 * Polly: That's right! It's time once again to paint Polly a picture!

 * Botley: My sensors are not picking up any signals from the mission clue in the biosphere! You sure we should stay here?
 * Polly: Hey, Rustley, not so fast! There's no mission clue here! But we all know you can use more invention points. So I've hidden them where... well, that's for you to find out.

 * Botley: You promise you'll give us a few hints when we get inside?
 * Polly: Oh, Botley, stop sniffling, of course, I will!
 * Botley: What do you say? Should we launch an explorer? Just click on the launch button.

 * Botley: I'm not detecting a hidden mission clue anywhere near here! Maybe we should we go hunting somewhere else.
 * Polly: No, Botley, you took all the fun away from your friend! There's no mission clue, but there are some invention points I've hidden. You just have to figure out where!

 * Botley: But the deal still you'll give us hints when we get inside?
 * Polly: Relax! Would I let you down?!
 * Botley: If you want to launch an explorer and enter the biosphere. Click on the launch button.

 * Ms. Winkle: What makes milk safe to drink?
 * Polly: To make things safe to eat, you often to have heat them. You wash your hands with hot water before eating, right? So, just before milking, the farmer heats the cow gently. That way, the milk that comes out of them is safe to drink.
 * Ms. Winkle: Polly, you silly billy. Why heat the whole cow when you can simply heat the milk? Louis Pasteur discovered a way to kill germs through pasteurization, and in the process made milk and other foods safe for human consumption.

 * Polly: So, Rotley, you think you've foiled my plan by rescuing all those robots? Well, my test score may be zero now, but there's still that extra credit question, and Ms. Winkle says that extra credit questions always more than make up for the rest of the test. This extra credit question involves the origins of the universe. Now, we all know she's expecting me to discuss the Big Bang, but I'd rather discuss the Big Bot. Yeah, that's right, I think the universe started with a robot named Botley!
 * Botley: Me?! But I thought there was... I don't know... mutual respect developing between us!
 * Polly: Save me the schmaltz, Blotley. Daddy programmed you to obey me. So I order you to march on over to the handy-dandy Time Machine and set those dials to way, way back -- to the beginning of the universe.
 * Botley: But, Polly, the beginning of the universe would mean the end of me!
 * [Cut to the Professor's chamber]
 * Botley: You can't mean that!
 * Polly: You should never have tried to stop me, Plodley. I mean, I didn't deserve that big fat 'F' on my test. No! I really had no choice but to send those robots back to change history so I could get the 'A' I so richly deserved -- the 'A' Ms. Winkle refused to give me! :[At this point, Professor Spark enters the room and glares at Polly] I know my father said I was never ever under any circumstances to play with his time machine. But I know in my heart that if he were here right now, he'd say "Polly, Ms. Winkle robbed you! Now go out there and change the history of the world you brave, brilliant, beautiful little girl!"
 * Professor Spark: Ahem.
 * Polly: Uh-oh! [she turns around and smiles nervously at her father]
 * Botley: Professor Spark! Oh, it's so good to see you!
 * Professor Spark: Hello, Botley. Hello... Polly.
 * Polly: So how was the annual Time-Warp Inventor's Convention, Daddy? As fun as usual?
 * Professor Spark: Yes, it was very informative. Very informative indeed. Funny how you think you know a thing or two about history, and then all of a sudden, it changes on you.
 * Polly: But, Daddy, I-I-I can explain!
 * Professor Spark: I'm waiting.
 * Polly: Um... umm... Botley made me do it! He must have a faulty chip or something. I tried to stop him, but he was out of control! Oh, Daddy, I'm so glad you're home!
 * Professor Spark: Nice try, Polly, but I think Ms. Winkle might tell a different tale.
 * Polly: Oh, Daddy, Ms. Winkle just doesn't understand. I thought she did, but she doesn't.
 * Professor Spark: Fortunately, Polly, she understands enough to let you retake that quiz, right now.
 * [Ms. Winkle appears on another monitor.]
 * Ms. Winkle: Hello, Polly. I'm so glad to give you this opportunity. Of course, because you took the test once, I can't give you the same questions. So I've made up another test, just for you. I hope you've been brushing up on your Latin!
 * Polly: Latin? Latin?! Oh, but Daddy!
 * [Cut to the Robot Roost]
 * Botley: Good old Professor Spark. Nothing gets by him.
 * Polly: You just wait till next time, Snotley!
 * [Polly's monitor turns off and the screen goes up.]
 * Botley: Okay! Now that all the Robots are home safe, feel free to stay and explore the mountain all you want. But don't count Polly out just yet. She could still show up at anytime.

 * Botley: Alright! Things are going well. That area way back at me is all the Professor's time travelling robots are stored.

 * Polly: Let's see, Plotley, if you can figure out which work of art I'm thinking about, I'll give you some Invention Points.

 * Polly: Can't get enough, huh?

 * Botley: Okay, Polly, we're ready for another round!
 * Polly: Nothing left for a prize but some more Invention Points. Just play this little ditty! Make sure nothing's off key, please! [the piano top door opens and the music tablet goes up and Polly's monitor turns off and the screen goes up.]
 * Botley: Click on the music tablet to play that tune. Click on the music tablet to play that tune.

 * Botley: So, you still wanna go exploring in the Biosphere? Maybe Polly can make it worth our time.
 * Polly: Sure, Crotley, just figure out where I hid the Invention Points and they're all yours.

 * Polly: Can't get enough, can you, Snotley? Well here's a hint if you're looking for more Invention Points.

 * Botley: I gotta say this is one of my favorite rooms in this place.

 * Botley: Back at the Robot Obstacle Course!
 * Polly: And the only thing for you are a few Invention Points down there. Think you can handle that? Okay! Just count to ten, then concentrate on programming that robot.

 * Ms. Winkle: How's this for a throne? The world's first flushing toilet was invented 400 years ago for Queen Elizabeth the first of England. Elizabeth like the invention, but not the inventor. They had a fight and he was banished from the kingdom. Talk about a royal flush. The first toilets were invented long before Queen Elizabeth sat on her throne. How did the world's first toilets flush?
 * Polly: Well, Ms. Winkle, early toilets had no place to send waste, so the inventor decided to just obliterate the whole mess. You pushed a button and it exploded. Clean, simple, and sanitary.
 * Ms. Winkle: A visually interesting response, Polly. But no, the first toilets didn't explode, they were built near the seashore on the island of Crete. When the tides came in, nature did the flushing automatically.


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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Man is born of sadness
Page created for a single quote, which of course doesn't have any sort of source information. (Of the six hits on Google for the quote, five claim the quote is from "the Sumerian texts", with no further explanation.) —LrdChaos (talk) 13:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17 February 2007, 14:00 (UTC)

 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 13:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete.  Cbrown1023  talk  18:51, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Tyrenius 03:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 10:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Good candidate for speedy delete!--Poetlister 17:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah (Arabic: رانيا العبدالله; born Rania Al-Yassin on August 31, 1970) is the queen consort of King Abdullah II, the king of Jordan.

Quotes

 * Islam neither requires one to be practising, nor to dress in one way or another. So imposing the veil on a woman is contrary to the principles of Islam. … Unfortunately, after all the suspicion weighing on Islam, many people have begun to consider the veil as a political problem, but this is not the case … Wearing the veil is a free personal choice.
 * Interview with Corriere della Sera, as quoted in "Muslim women don't have to wear veils: Rania", Khaleej Times (9 February 2007)

 * Many people are frustrated in the Arab world. Many give in to the anger because they are accused of violence. But instead we should get up, explain who we are and what we believe in. … Over the last three years, most victims of terrorism have been Muslim. So there’s not a war between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between extremists and moderates of all the religions. … What is important is not to live in fear. The most dangerous [thing to do] is to give up and lose hope. The main enemy is not terrorism or extremism, but ignorance.
 * Interview with Corriere della Sera, as quoted in "Muslim women don't have to wear veils: Rania" in Khaleej Times (9 February 2007)

 * When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.
 * Interview in Arabic with Al-Arabiya, 27/10/2013

TIME interview (2007)

 * "10 Questions for Queen Rania", Interview in TIME magazine (10 May 2007)

 * I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.

 * To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

 * I believe in because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.

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origami --- the japanese art of folding paper facinates people of all age group. it gives hours of joy. a committed origamist from india; mr.govind gopal kulkarni; who is often heard to say 'origami tests your patience to last fold". oribaba --- the origamist; aka ... kaagaz ka karigar!!!

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Shashi kumar yadav
The creator of this page, whose quote can be found in the image caption line, was also the creator of two articles copied in toto from Wikipedia: Mechanical Engineering and Indian School of Mines University Dhanbad India. I speedily deleted those quoteless encyclopedic articles. Google search yields nothing of note for what is presumably a vanity article. - InvisibleSun 17:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Vote closes: 17 February 2007 at 18:00 (UTC)

 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 17:46, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete article from self-confessed college student with no notability evidence. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Stemula

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Stemula
No WP page for this group. Google search yields doubtful notability; but even if they were to be considered a notable group, the quotes are utter drek. - InvisibleSun 22:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Vote closes: 17 February 2007 at 23:00 (UTC)

 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 22:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete --Aphaia 00:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. Despite an intro essay that screams "unfamous", I reminded myself (especially after recent rant responses) that we should assume good faith, and checked this out at All Music Guide. No go. I posted a note to the article creator because she doesn't seem to be aware of how easy it is to find the information she claims to be omitting "for privacy". In fact, if I hadn't found out that she's apparently (barely) an adult (along with a good bit of other info, in just 2 minutes of checking), I'd be tempted to blank the article to protect her from unwise exposure. As it is, I've recommended she do this, or ask us to speedy-delete the article. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Jeff.  Cbrown1023  talk  01:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete WP:IAR Tyrenius 03:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 16:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Does WP:IAR apply here? If so, I support Tyrenius.--Poetlister 22:36, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I can't recall any time we've ever invoked "ignore all rules", or the more specific w:WP:SNOW ("snowball's chance") in VfDs (except one recent instance where I did just that). We've had such a relatively small VfD participation that we tend to follow the rules more closely than WP. Also, it's possible for a sysop to judge that this meets WQ:SD, but my informal observation is that a sysop registering such a vote (rather than invoking it to close) means they aren't quite comfortable enough to execute such a decision, only to recommend it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Melaniehalliden

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Stemula
I'm afraid your article for Stemula has been nominated for deletion because it seems unlikely to be about a subject that has achieved notability outside a very local environment. Wikiquote collects quotes from people and creative works with notability demonstrated by references in the press or other publications. You are welcome to place quotes on your user page, User:Melaniehalliden, but please also note that Wikiquote should not be used to promote personal projects, or to be used solely as a personal webpage.

You might also note that the purpose of your carefully worded second sentence in the current article is negated by your choice of username. Two minutes of web searching uncovered quite a bit of additioanl information that I'm sure you don't want available. It's all too common that young people aren't aware just how easy it is for unsavory folks to collect this information, and unlike MySpace, Wikiquote does not have any protection mechanisms in place because it is not designed for social networking. All adult users (which you appear to be) have sole responsibility for protecting their personal info. I highly recommend that you remove this information from the article before it gets picked up by search engines. In fact, we can delete the article immediately if you request it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

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Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins (April 10, 1882 – May 14, 1965) was U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. She was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet and was largely responsible for the U.S. adoption of social security, unemployment insurance, the federal minimum wage, and federal laws regulating child labor. During her term as Secretary of Labor, Perkins executed the, the and its successor the , plus the labor portion of the. With the Social Security Act she established, pensions for the many uncovered elderly Americans and welfare for the poorest Americans. She pushed to reduce workplace accidents and helped craft laws against child labor. Through the, she established the first minimum wage and laws for American workers and defined the standard forty-hour work week. She formed governmental policy for working with labor unions and helped to alleviate strikes by way of the United States Conciliation Service. Perkins dealt with many labor questions during World War II when skilled labor was vital and women were moving into formerly male jobs. She is the subject of the documentary film "Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare" (2020).

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 * The process of recovery is not a simple one. ... We cannot be satisfied merely with makeshift arrangements which will tide us over the present emergencies. We must devise plans that will not merely alleviate the ills of today, but will prevent, as far as it is humanly possible to do so, their recurrence in the future.
 * Radio address (1935)

The Roosevelt I Knew (1946)

 * Like many people, I was an ardent admirer of Theodore Roosevelt. ...He had recommended to the people 's book How the Other Half Lives. I had read it, and Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address of 1905, and had straightaway felt that the pursuit of social justice would be my vocation.

 * As a student and professional social worker, I was taking an active part in proposals to use... legislative authority... to correct social abuses—long hours, low wages, bad housing, child labor, and unsanitary conditions.

 * He didn’t like concentrated responsibility. Agreement with other people who he thought were good, right minded, and trying to do the right thing by the world was almost as necessary to him as air to breathe.

 * The quality of his being one with his people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

Triangle Factory Fire Lecture (Sept 30, 1964)

 * Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Collection /3047, Cornell University, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Ithaca, NY. A source.

It had been locked by the employer himself because he feared... he would be robbed either by his employees or by the outsider.
 * 1911... was the year of the great Triangle Fire in New York City, a terrible industrial accident which burned out the contents of a 9th and 10th floor loft building factory... It caught on fire and the blaze spread very rapidly. There was only one means of exit available, the other two means of exits were the elevator which was ablaze almost immediately as the flames got into this open shaft and spread from floor to floor and the second exit was locked. It was an exit to the roof... it would have saved most of the people in that building if it had not been locked.

 * [T]his was a terrible accident; 147 young people, they were all young men and women, were killed, lost their lives and a number of others were badly injured. Some of them were injured after the fire in the elevator shaft had gone out. Of course the boys that ran the elevator had gone... fled. Some of the people tried to get out by jumping into the elevator shaft and grabbing the cables and letting themselves down... Some of them fell, some of them were awkward and... couldn't hold on. Some of them merely blistered their hands, took the skin and flesh off their hands coming down on the cables and there were a number of people sadly injured.

 * Everybody who jumped, and a good many did jump from the 9th and 10th floors, was killed. The other people who died were all people who were burned or smothered by the smoke in the factory itself.

 * This made a terrible impression on the people of the State of New York. I can't begin to tell you how disturbed the people were everywhere. It was as though we had all done something wrong. It shouldn't have been. We were sorry. Mea culpa! Mea culpa! We didn't want it that way. We hadn't intended to have 147 girls and boys killed in a factory. It was a terrible thing for the people... to face.

 * I remember... we heard the engines and we heard the screams and rushed out and rushed over... We could see this building from Washington Square and the people had just begun to jump when we got there. They had been holding... standing in the windowsills... crowded by others behind them, the fire pressing closer and closer, the smoke closer and closer. Finally the men were trying to get out this... net to catch people... they couldn't wait any longer. They began to jump. The window was too crowded and they would jump and they hit the sidewalk. The net broke, they [fell] a terrible distance, the weight of the bodies was so great... that they broke through the net. Every one of them was killed, everybody who jumped... It was a horrifying spectacle. We... felt as though we had been part of it all. The next day people... in all parts of the city... began to mull around and gather and talk.

 * So we proceeded and it proved to be a most educative experience. This factory investigating commission was continued... for four years and its report, is... seven volumes. ...and it's in great detail ...the recommendations, the testimony. We went all over the state. I was a young person then and certainly not fit for service on any super commission but I was the chief—I was the investigator, and in charge of the investigations and this was an extraordinary opportunity... to get into factories to make a report and be sure it was going to be heard.

 * Although their commission was to devise ways and means to prevent accidents by fire in the State of New York, we... kept expanding the function of the commission 'till it came to be the report on [un]sanitary conditions and to provide for their removal and to report all kinds of unsafe conditions... all kinds of human conditions that were unfavorable to the employees, including long hours, including low wages, including the labor of children, including the overwork of women, including homework put out by the factories to be taken home by the women. It included almost everything you could think of that had been in agitation for years. We were authorized to investigate and report and recommend action on all these subjects. I may say we did.

 * So that beginning with that report coming in as it did in 1915, it was laid on the table before the legislature, and by this time, was the speaker of the House and well on the way to be governor. We had a very favorable audience and much of the legislation was enacted into law, oh, within a couple of years...

 * [I]t afterwards, seems in some way to have paid the debt society owed to those children, those young people who lost their lives in the Triangle Fire. It's their contribution to the people of New York that we have this really magnificent series of legislative acts to protect and improve the administration of the law regarding the protection of work people in the City of - in the State of New York.

Madame Secretary: Frances Perkins (1970)

 * by Elisabeth P. Meyers

 * Women lobbyists, whatever their size, are looked at askance... Men seem to have trouble believing we have brains enough to understand the causes we're championing. ...Maybe I should have said most men.

 * From this day forward, I will be a Doer of the Word and not as Hearer only, whenever and wherever I see the need.
 * Pledge taken by Frances with other girls at meetings of the Mount Holyoke chapter of the where she led philosophical discussions.

 * I never really saw really poor people before... My parents always told me nobody had to be poor—that they wouldn't be if they weren't shiftless or didn't spend everything they earned on drink. I don't understand how Mama and Papa could be so mistaken! ...Yes, I guess I do. 'There are none so blind as those who will not see'—and that's a favorite quotation of Papa's too!
 * Report after visiting a textile factory upriver from on a senior year assignment in an American industrial history class taught by Miss Annah Soule at . In the factory she saw row after row of women bent over their work in dim light with small children squatting near them, winding bobbins by hand. The millworkers' shacks seemed less substantial than her uncle's chicken coops.

 * I shall always be most grateful to him. He made me rediscover that I had a mind. It had lain fallow, I am afraid, since my Mount Holyoke days.
 * Description of Professor Simon Nelson Patten, one of her teachers at the Wharton School, where she attended evening classes in economics and sociology in 1908.

 * Who is that tall, thin young man with the pince-nez, who seems constantly to be looking down his nose at people?
 * Perkins' first impression of Franklin D. Roosevelt at a tea-dance in the home of Mrs. Walston Brown at.

 * Well... he'll only win that way once, I imagine. He doesn't look as if he'd be very popular with people. What I mean is, he doesn't look as if he really likes people.
 * Upon hearing that Franklin D. Roosevelt won his NY state senate seat because many thought they were voting for Theodore Roosevelt.

 * You showed me which, of all the 'hats' a social worker wears, suits me best. ...[i.e.,] You convinced me that man-made evils can be corrected if people can be made to care enough. I intend to make them, if it's in my power.
 * Speaking to, with whom she worked in support of the Fifty-Four Hour Bill, to restrict working hours for women and children.

 * His arrogance isn't what disturbs me so much as his self-centeredness... He doesn't seem to care about anything that doesn't concern him personally.
 * Perkins' second impression of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albany (1911)

 * The mothers don't want to bring their children [in for child labor at a vegetable cannery in Auborn, NY]—they need to. ...That need will never cease until employers pay decent wages! There ought to be a law assuring minimum pay, as well as one limiting hours worked!
 * Plea (after return from Factory Investigating Commissioners' trip) to Governor who responded that she was right, but that this was outside of the commission's jurisdiction.

 * I will fight for it up to the Supreme Court, if necessary... If the Industrial Commission does not have the right to make essential safety laws, it might as well close up shop!
 * Spring, 1920 discussion with Eleanor Roosevelt on the fireproofing rule made after a fire in Binghampton, NY, where workers had been burned alive on a fire escape.

 * Gentlemen... let me make a plain statement. As I see it, the Labor Commission is duty-bound always to consider two things about every recommendation. One: what will this provide in the way of health, comfort, decency and security? Two: what will it cost?
 * Statement before the NY state Senate Finance Committee for confirmation of her appointment, by Governor, to the Industrial Commission.

 * The day I need an armed bodyguard is the day I admit my job's too much for a woman.
 * After her return from an August 3, 1919 public hearing before the State Industrial Commission at Rome, NY, where copper workers, striking against the Spargo Wire Company, were armed with knives, sling shots and a few guns and where a cache of dynamite was rumored to be hidden in the workers' section of town; and where, in the previous month, shots had been exchanged.

 * I think any compulsion other than moral compulsion is wrong. Let disputes be settled by public opinion, not statute.
 * Answer to Governor 's inquiry as to whether she thought the state should establish compulsory arbitration of labor disputes.

 * I know what horror tales you've been hearing from manufacturers... They've told you they can't possibly operate under a forty-eight hour law. Well, they said the same thing twelve years ago when the Fifty-Four Hour Bill was under consideration. So, gentlemen, let us look at the facts. ...[T]here have been fewer industrial accidents, because the workers do not so often become careless through fatigue. Gentlemen, there is every reason to believe things will improve still further when the working day is shorter. ...A million women will be affected by the law... you don't need to fear employers... [T]hose million women have suffrage... Let this bill that means so much to them go to a vote. They'll be grateful to you!
 * Statement (including pages of statistics showing production increased significantly with shorter working hours) to the NY state Assembly in Albany in support the Forty-Eight Hour Bill to limit work hours of women and children, which later failed to pass.

 * His illness had changed him... Having known what trouble is to the very depths of his being, he can now sympathize with other people who have problems. I think he could make a very good governor of the state of New York.
 * Recommending to that Franklin D. Roosevelt succeed him as governor.

 * To know him is to love him... He's honest, high-minded, intelligent and—above all—independent. I have worked with him in government for years. There has never been any conflict between his official duties and his religious beliefs, I am confident there never will be!
 * Repeated in speeches in the Deep South and Middle West in support of 's run for the presidency to alleviate fears of Smith's Catholicism.

 * I would not be where I am today if it were not for you and others like you. ...I do not regard you as paying tribute to me personally, but to Frances Perkins as a symbol of the genuine desire to bring happiness to those who have it not in their own power. So that industry may bear down kindly instead of bitterly. ...I promise to use the brains I have to meet problems with intelligence and courage. ...I promise that I will be candid about what I know, of the Labor Department or of the state of industry in this state and in country.
 * At a luncheon given in honor of her new position as New York's Labor Commissioner.

 * It is all-important to keep the human touch in whatever we do... This is the machine age... and we should make machines work for us—but let us not act like robots ourselves!

 * Organized labor has always had one of its own people as Secretary and will expect to continue to have. I do not qualify.
 * Discussion with Franklin D. Roosevelt prior to her appointment as Secretary of Labor.

 * Would you leave me free to do what I think is best for the Labor Department, Franklin? I'd try to keep you informed, but I wouldn't always be able to... [D]irect unemployment relief, a program of public works, minimum wage and hour laws, unemployment and old age insurance, abolition of child labor... These things need doing no matter who is Secretary of Labor.
 * Discussion with Franklin D. Roosevelt prior to her appointment as Secretary of Labor.

 * Just let the people know that they matter to you, that your plan is to mobilize the government to help them. If you can give them hope that things will be better, they'll bless you, Franklin.

 * The Employment Service is all but dead. It needs resurrecting and reorganizing. The Statistical Bureau needs revamping too, so it will be an honest fact-finding body. As for the Immigration Service—well, really, Franklin, it is altogether too reactionary for today's world.
 * After her first cabinet meeting.

 * I thought witch-hunting was a thing of the past, but that's what this 'red-baiting' immigration squad is doing. They see communists behind every foreign name.
 * Upon discharging the entire 55-member staff of "undercover" men hired to get rid of "undesirable aliens" by the former Assistant Secretary of Labor. She charged they had been both brutal and lawless in carrying out their assignment.

 * Harry Bridges is a card-carrying Communist, Franklin, but that's the single black mark against him and isn't illegal. I just don't believe a man should be punished for what he believes or thinks.

 * I'm the last leaf on the New Deal tree, and I think perhaps I've clung here too long already.
 * On the day Eisenhower was inaugurated and Frances resigned as Civil Service Commissioner.

A Woman Unafraid (1993)

 * : The Achievements of Frances Perkins by

 * We were in a terrible situation... Banks were closing. The economic life of the country was almost at a standstill.
 * On the situation following the 1933 inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt and her appointment as secretary of labor.

 * My generation was perhaps the first that openly and actively asserted—at least some of us did—the separateness of women and their personal independence in the family relationship...

 * I am extraordinarily the product of my grandmother... Scarcely a week goes by that I don't find myself saying, "As my grandmother used to say," and then repeating something that apparently has been a guiding principle all my life.

 * One of the girls who was among my best friends came from a poverty-stricken home. Her family was delightful and I used to wonder how such things could happen...

 * I discovered for the first time, under the stimulus of that course and of that teacher, that I had a mind... My intellectual pride was aroused and the grim determination awakened me to get the most I could out of college.
 * On her junior year chemistry course at Mount Holyoke, in which Professor Nellie Esther Goldthwaite "hounded" her until she mastered the material, thereby learning more than chemistry.

 * Like many young people, I was an ardent admirer of Theodore Roosevelt... Out of the period that I was in school a whole generation, particularly women emerged, but men too, who had a great passion for social justice...

 * [ 's speech] first opened my mind to the necessity for and the possibility of the work which became my vocation.
 * Commenting on a Kelley speech at the time Perkins was in her senior year at Mount Holyoke.

 * What is the trouble? How can we cure this? ...What can be done? ...I had to do something about unnecessary hazards to life, unnecessary poverty. It was sort of up to me. This feeling... sprang out of a period of great philosophical confusion which overtakes all young people...
 * Following her overwhelming experience at and  where she was immersed in the life of the poor, who suffered from malnutrition and disease and were paid pennies for the hours they worked.

 * [I] wrote to anybody I knew who had any connection at all with charities to say I wanted a job, but had no experience.
 * On her experience following her decision to stop teaching and to do social work, prior to obtaining a job investigating abuses of girls and women with the Philadelphia Research and Protective Association.

 * If facts were to be found, I was to devise ways to prevent it or overcome it either by social representation or by legislation at the municipal or state level. ...Ten cent lodging houses, employment agencies, the offices of the Philadelphia political "gangs," and the two police courts all became my haunts...
 * Letter to previous classmates published in the Mount Holyoke Monthly Quarterly referencing her work for the Philadelphia Research and Protective Association to alleviate abuses of immigrant girls and black women from the South.

 * Social work was an infant then. ...I just lapped it up there... I discovered... that I had a mind that starts, operates on its own scheme, inquires, penetrates, goes to the bottom of things, puts two and two together and comes to some logical conclusions that have authority.
 * On night courses at Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania taught by Professor she attended, while striving to become educated with respect to her social work.

 * And best (or worst) of all, I grew old during that time, so that now I am a settled and mature old spinster with an opinion on every topic under heaven... I've also acquired... a sense of humor—so that I no longer take myself and my doings seriously...
 * Writing to her Mount Holyoke classmates while earning a meager salary at the Philadelphia Research and Protective Association, attending Wharton at night and periodically having to pawn her watch.

 * I was badly bitten by the idea that I could have a place in the theatre... I harbored that idea for a little while. It would have been a great pleasure, but I soon dropped it because I got principle...
 * Commenting on a previous summer in New York City where she had tried to obtain a theater job, prior to being offered a scholarship at the New York School of Philanthropy and planning a master's in political science at Columbia University.

Quotes about Perkins

 * [H]istorians putting the records together closer to the era in which Frances Perkins lived would have known that Frances was both a suffrage leader and a labor advocate, but scholars born later did not easily make that connection.
 * Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (2009) Acknowledgements, p. x.

 * [Perkins' daughter] Susanna's death... opened up one small box of personal documents, which... chronicled the mental health problems and physician's reports on Susanna and Frances's husband Paul Wilson, who both suffered from bipolar disorder. During her lifetime, Susanna had denied that her father had ever been ill... allowing it to appear that Frances had been an overly controlling mother, or that she had pretended that her husband was mentally ill to get rid of him. Concealing that information allowed allowed a generation... to believe that Frances had been a failure as a wife and a mother.
 * Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (2009) Acknowledgements, pp. xi-xii.

And so... on March 4, 1933 Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the United States Cabinet... The legacy of her years in office continues to affect the life of every U.S. citizen.
 * [B]efore she accepted the offer she had to know if the President-elect would support her in advocating the programs she would wish to pursue as secretary of labor. ...[S]he pulled out a little slip of paper ...the list of goals about which she felt passionate. Among other items on the list were laws for minimum wages and maximum hours, for unemployment insurance and old-age insurance. ...Only when he firmly assured, "I'll back you," could she think about... accepting the offer.
 * Naomi Pasachoff, Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal (2000)

 * Frances Perkins brings to the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor the many years of training and experience which step by step have rounded out the preparation for her great responsibility. Even with the contribution of her vivid personality, the press, generally speaking, pays her the tribute of reporting the wisdom of the words and acts rather than idle "gossip" about the "first woman Cabinet member."
 * Lillian Wald Windows on Henry Street (1934)

Madam Secretary: Frances Perkins (1976)

 * A Biography of America's First Woman Cabinet Member, by George Whitney Martin.

 * Perkins' personality informed all her work. ...[W]hat Perkins chose to do was determined by her religion. Many Democrats supported the  because it attracted votes; others, for humanitarian reasons; Perkins, "for Jesus' sake," because it brought the City of God closer to the cities of toil and industry.

 * Not only was she one of the most important women of her generation, but even today, because of her work on minimum wage and on accident, unemployment and old age insurance, she has a hand in our daily lives. ...[H]er achievements have been too little appreciated.

 * She disliked personal publicity and often would do nothing to counter criticism even when it was patently unfair.

 * [B]ecause historians and biographers of have reported only the first half of her career, and those of Roosevelt only the second, its continuity has been lost.

 * [F]or roughly twenty years, from 1925 to 1945, on social legislation hers was the dominant voice at the ear of the leader of the Democratic party, and among the party's most lasting achievements in that period are several for which she was the prime mover.

 * So it was done: one administration, Democratic, succeeded another, Republican. ...She had heard nothing from the Department of Labor; her predecessor, ... did not plan any ceremonial welcome. ...Except for an occasional fee from an article or speech, she had only her salary as a cabinet officer, $13,000 a year, to support herself, her child and husband. Sussana was doing well at the Brearly School and [her husband, Paul] Wilson was in a sanitarium... able, on occasion to come home. ...In Washington Perkins felt she... could afford, only a small apartment or a single room.

 * Because Doak seemed uncertain what to say, she... asked general questions... She quickly concluded that he had little information. ...[H]e could not describe any ideas they had discussed for combating the Depression. When she mentioned a program of public works as a method of providing employment and increasing purchasing power, he seemed to have no ideas beyond... "it'll cost a lot of money and wreck the Treasury." ...[S]he questioned Doak about the department's chief problems. "Well, the immigration business is always serious," he said. "We have lots of trouble with those people who come in illegally." ...The previous week a New York police lieutenant ...had come to her office to describe how a group within the Bureau of Immigration was extorting money from aliens. ...Specifically, the lieutenant had warned her to watch for ...the leaders of the Section 24 group. Doak had created the special section and appointed both men. ...It was not the sort of labor problem that Perkins had discussed with Roosevelt, but here it was in her department.

 * [W]hen the department moved to a new building... she opened the cafeteria with a ruling that all employees, regardless of color, could use it. ...[T]o one white man who complained, she explained it not in terms of racial justice, but of cockroaches... sensible housekeeping.

 * To a greater extent than she realized [The Bureau of Immigration] dominated the department. Its various activities absorbed 3659 of the 5113 employees and nearly $10 million of the $13 million budget, even though the number of immigrants and aliens in the country... was fast declining.

 * Doak... spoke often of the "radical element" among the laborers; he stressed constantly the threat to the country from "alien agitators"; and in order to find and deport aliens illegally in the country he had formed a special corps of investigators... Section 24 ...Section 24 of the permitted a Secretary of Labor, without regard to civil service requirements, to appoint to the bureau any persons he thought specially qualified to enforce the contract labor provisions of the immigration laws. ...In [First Assistant Secrtetary of Labor, Robe Carl] White's opinion most of the men Doak had appointed ...were dishonest. They had been recruited, White said, "out of the gutter."

'''He was astonished and at the same time amused. "It's a great joke," he said, "that it should be you who runs into crooks. Go ahead and clean them out.''' ..."
 * [S]he had decided to abolish the group... But first she went to talk with the President. She saw him privately in his office... told him briefly about the force, quoted the report of Hoover's commission and described what she had found in the department.

 * She set about eliminating the group as quickly and as quietly as possible. She did not call in the newspapers; her purpose was not to blacken the Hoover administration or to lay charges... but to reorganize the largest bureau in her department. Gaarson was asked to submit his resignation as Special Assistant Secretary of Labor... Sixteen members of the force, among them Doak's brother and nephew... were put on furlough... and the other seventy-one members were informed that, for lack of funds... their jobs... were abolished.

 * A day or two later she returned to the office after dinner to work, not expecting to find anyone in the building except the night watchman. ...The elevator door opened directly on Gaarson, his brother and several other men. They were rifling the files. ...pulling out the folders, going through them, taking papers out and piling them on the floor. ..."If you have anything personal here, I suggest you come back tomorrow after the department is open, and that you tell Mr. White [Robe Carl White, First Assistant Secrtetary of Labor] what you want. ...Meanwhile I ask you to leave the building now." The "now" resounded. On the faces of many of the more thuglike men she could see a determination not to leave. Gaarson... decided to go... After they left, she telephoned for an additional guard and waited until he came. The next day she changed the locks on the cabinets. Once she had some programs on unemployment started, she would see what could be done about prosecution.

 * She intended... to lessen the bureau's importance in the department, chiefly by increasing the strength of the other five bureaus: Labor Statistics, Women, Children, and the Employment and Conciliation services. Though Immigration was the largest, in her view it had little to do with the country's problems.

 * When she and Roosevelt had first discussed the possibility of her appointment, she had given him a list of policies... Most dealt directly with unemployment: public works, minimum wages, maximum hours, unemployment insurance, old age and retirement insurance, abolition of child labor, creation of a federal employment service, federal aid to the states for direct relief and promotion within the states of state labor laws. Immigration was peripheral.

 * She was aware from her experience with the legislature in New York that labor legislation, like oysters, could be swallowed only in certain seasons, and she was prepared to work on whatever at the moment seemed most likely to succeed.

A Woman Unafraid (1993)

 * : The Achievements of Frances Perkins by

 * Despite hate mail and harsh treatment by the press, her husband's chronic mental illness, and a resolution of impeachment against her, Frances Perkins successfully fought to make life better for working people by establishing unemployment insurance, minimum wages, maximum hours, safety regulations, and Social Security.

 * During her lifetime, a time when women faced severe restrictions and prejudices, Frances Perkins achieved many firsts—first woman head of an industrial commission, first woman in a governor's cabinet, first woman in a president's cabinet. But never without public furor.

 * [A]lthough the astonishing growth of industry in America was amazing, it was also awful. Amazing with such inventions as the telephone (1876, four years before Frances... was born); the phonograph (1877...) the electric light (1879...); and the first airplane (1903, one year after Perkins graduated from college). But awful with rich business owners... and poor workers living in... city slums. ...Awful with dangerous working conditions in most mines, factories, and sweatshops. ...Perkins started her junior year at Mount Holyoke in 1900. ...Bathtubs were found in one out of seven American homes. ...Big businesses were thriving, and businessmen had enormous financial and political power.

 * What she liked about [ Theodore Roosevelt] were his "progressive ideas," or his ideas that everybody should get a "square deal"... not just big business owners. ...Roosevelt thought it was time for reforms—time to put some limits on big business, to drive out corrupt politicians, to provide better opportunities for working people, and to improve conditions in the cities. ..."Out of the period ...a whole generation ...emerged... who had a great passion for social justice," Perkins said years later.

 * During her senior year Frances... heard speak. ...[K]nown as a "raging furnace" about issues of social justice, Kelley had successfully fought to get [Illinois] laws passed... to prohibit child labor and to limit the number of hours that women worked. According to Perkins, Kelley's speech "first opened my mind to... the work which became my vocation."

 * Perkins was influenced by many books that exposed horrendous situations, including 's book How the Other Half Lives, an exposé... that "deeply moved" Perkins.

 * For Perkins being religious meant that she had a "duty" to help people. She agreed with the words of, the founder of Mount Holyoke, that people "should live for God and do something."

 * Perkins was graduated in June 1902. It was the year... that a record number of immigrants came to America... For two years, Perkins had various teaching jobs close to home. Then in 1904 she went to teach... a... girl's school in Lake Forrest, Illinois. Whenever she had free time she went into nearby Chicago... She... spent time at ... and ... two of America's most famous settlement houses... in the slums where well-educated people... settled to share poor people's lives and help them improve their situation.

 * At and, Perkins was immersed in the lives of people who wore ragged clothes, lived crowded together in rickety buildings, suffered from malnutrition and disease, and were paid what amounted to pennies for the hours they worked. ...Before long, Perkins decided to leave teaching... [d]etermined to be a social worker... [T]he Philadelphia Research and Protective Association ...formed ...to investigate ...pimps, thieves, and unscrupulous employers... preying upon newly arrived immigrant girls and black women from the South. Perkins applied, was hired, and moved... in 1907... She uncovered a variety of abuses and devised programs to help... young women. She lobbied officials to get regulations and legislation passed. ...[S]he gave speeches to inform people and raise money...

"I just lapped it up there," Perkins said later...
 * [T]he idea of social work and social workers was very new. Determined to learn what was known, Perkins took night courses from Professor ... famous for his idea of "surplus civilization," or belief that with industrialization there would be enough... for every person to have a decent life.

 * The book she wrote, The Roosevelt I Knew... is still considered one of the best biographies of Roosevelt.

 * [Upon accepting] Truman's appointment [to the] three-member Civil Service Commission (CSC)... For six and a half years Perkins prodded the government to be more efficient, to cut down on red tape and to simplify rules and regulations.

1933-1945'''
 * Frances Perkins's name and the dates of her birth and death are carved on her headstone. So are the words: '''Secretary of Labor of U.S.A.

 * Sadly, Perkins was right that the door might not open to other women for a "long, long time." Twenty years passed before... Dwight Eisenhower, appointed... ... as secretary of health, education and welfare... Forty-two years passed before President Gerald Ford appointed Carla Hills as secretary of housing and urban development... Sixty years later President Bill Clinton appointed three women and eleven men to his cabinet.

 * Perkins was... right in knowing that the fight to maintain labor standards would be ongoing. As recently as 1991, twenty-five workers died in a factory fire in Raleigh, North Carolina. They were trapped behind locked doors and blocked fire escapes. ...Nor would she be surprised to know that unemployment and healthcare are still problems. ...But she trusted that there would be another generation... who believed in social justice and who would fight to make life better for all Americans.

Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare (2020)

 * Documentary film written by Mick Caouette; directed by Mick Caouette & Joe Paolo, produced by South Hill Films, LLC.

 * She inherited part of a tradition of service. She was its caretaker for a little while, and she passed it on to another generation. ...[T]here was a timelessness and a transcendence to the quality of her work, just a natural part of the American society...
 * David Brooks

 * During her 12 years as Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins suffered public insults, attacks on her manner and dress, lies about her birth place and ethnicity, death threats, and finally an unsuccessful impeachment attempt. Through it all she worked 15 hour days to shorten work hours for others. She crusaded for the poor and homeless, even as her own home was broken by disease and separation.
 * Mick Caouette

 * She was able to help weave the torn fabric of a failing democracy into a new design for government that would change life for every single American.
 * Mick Caouette

 * Prior to the creation of Social Security only 1 out of every 100 Americans had any provision at all for retirement. Their bodies worn out, in poverty and misery, many of them were shipped to... the poor farm, warehouses of death where most of the elderly went to live and to die. Poverty is tough, misery is difficult, pain and suffering are hard, but nothing equals the loss of self-esteem in a person's life, and Frances Perkins changed that.
 * George Mitchell

 * Frances Perkins tried to... speak to a level of discontent... unhappiness... misery... [S]he was... unusually committed, unusually brave, alone in a world of men, moving into a sphere that no woman had ever moved into before. ...for all that we owe her a good deal of thanks.

 * There is no contribution that a cabinet member has made in the history of this country that has had the lasting kind of effect on all of us, and the way we live, than what Francis Perkins did.

 * [I]nto this enormous churning, seemingly endless insecure society, they introduced the notion of a secure society, social security. I do not believe that the Social Security Act would have made it into law without Francis Perkins.

 * [S]he had that burdensome conscience that drove her to get something done that probably made the most significant difference in the life of America than almost anything that you can name.
 * Nancy Pelosi

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Jamie benson

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Jamie benson
Only one quote, not verifiable, may not be true, does not appear to even have been said by the individual (with the "Q-Tip:").  Cbrown1023  talk  01:11, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 01:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete as nom.  Cbrown1023  talk  01:29, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Very dubious. Tyrenius 03:46, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless some evidence of notability is provided, as well as a source for that or any quote. —LrdChaos (talk) 15:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with LrdChaos. ~ UDScott 16:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless sourced quotes added. Given her two albums listed in All Music Guide, she seems to meet a useful notability criterion (even if there's virtually no other info on her there). But the article as it stands is of no use to us. If kept, this should be moved to Jamie Benson, of course. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete due to lack of verifiability. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 10:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Tyrenius.--Poetlister 22:37, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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