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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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#go #go home #home #hunt #hypocrite

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

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They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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What have you given the world it never possessed before you came? ↗

— Billy Sunday

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