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‘Ford,’ he said, ‘there’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.’
Douglas Adams • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A key argument in Lincoln’s case against slavery was that it supported an aristocracy determined to undermine America’s promise that “the humblest man [has] an equal chance to get rich with everyone else.”
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The idea of the equality of men is in substance simply the idea of the importance of man.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Tyler Cowen has argued that one of “the most valuable things you can do with your time and with your life” is to believe in people.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
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Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
"Oh, I have what a lot of people would probably call communistic thoughts," said Eliot artlessly, "but, for heaven's sakes, Father, nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl Marx from time to time—or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes. I think it's terrible the way people don't share things in this country. I th
... See moreKurt Vonnegut • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
In the United States in 1907, a book entitled Three Acres and Liberty seized the imagination of the reading public. The author, Bolton Hall, began by taking for granted the awkwardness of having to work for someone else, and so told readers that they could regain their freedom by leaving their offices and factories and buying three acres of farmlan
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