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"The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance."
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"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."

"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."

"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."

"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."

"Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately."

"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."

"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
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"The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none."

"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."

"The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done."

"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."

"It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers."

"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."

"I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer."

"The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity."
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