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"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."
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"Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them."

"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."

"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."

"Every woman's heart cannot be opened with words, sometimes you need to use your hands."

"Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back."

"Everybody talks, but there is no conversation."

"Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees."

"Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding."
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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."


"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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