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Frances Perkins: Most of man's...

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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Frances Perkins, (Apr 10 1880-1965), US educator, government official; She was the first woman to hold a cabinet position as FDR's secretary of Labor, 1933-45; dedicated to good working conditions.


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