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William Petty

"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."

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"An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain."

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"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people."

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"His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up."

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"Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal."

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"Let the beauty of sunrise, keep your heart warm."

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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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"Life is a natural phenomenon " and by mystifying it, one only disgraces its natural beauty."

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"Every flower displays its beautiful colours in autumn."

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"Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature."

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"Money is the best rule of commerce."
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"Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself."
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"Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers."
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"The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange."
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"I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration."
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"No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once."
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"Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves."
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"Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient."
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"A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect."
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"That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World."
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