"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

Earth, Land, Race

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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."

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"To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole."

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"Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable."

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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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"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."

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"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."

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"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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"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."

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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."

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

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"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."

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