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"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."
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"In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose."
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"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."
Meaning
"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
Negative
"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."
Wealth
"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
Wealth
"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."
Progress
"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species."
Land
"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."
Change
"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."
Character
"And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned."
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"Progress does take time, it doesn't matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come."
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"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"
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"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."
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"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations."
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"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."
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"You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear."
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"Without constructive skepticism, without human progress."
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"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
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