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William Graham Sumner

"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."

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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."

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Donna Grant

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

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Donna Grant

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

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Donna Grant

"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

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Donna Grant

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

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Donna Grant

"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

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Donna Grant

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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Donna Grant

"Let no such man be trusted."

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Donna Grant

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

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Donna Grant

"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

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Donna Grant

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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William Graham Sumner
"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control."

Control

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William Graham Sumner
"Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work."

Work

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William Graham Sumner
"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."

Property

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William Graham Sumner
"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."

Communication

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William Graham Sumner
"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals."

Finance

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William Graham Sumner
"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."

Law

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William Graham Sumner
"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."

Society

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William Graham Sumner
"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."

Man

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William Graham Sumner
"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."

Man

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William Graham Sumner
"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."

Fitness

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