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"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."
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."

"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."

"Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs."

"My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter."

"Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease."
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"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."


"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."


"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."


"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."


"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."


"We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men."


"Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State."


"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."


"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."
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