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That seductive border region where politics grease the wheels of business and polite society smiles hopefully on both.
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Defined by its purpose, its [education's] main aim is not to impart the specialized technique of any particular trade or profession, but to develop the faculties which, because they are the attribute of man, are not peculiar to any particular class or profession of men, and to build up the interests which, while they may become the basis of specialization at a later stage, have a value extending beyond their utility for any particular vocation, because they are the condition of a rational and responsible life in society.
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Democracy a society where ordinary men exercise initiative. Dreadful respect for superiors. Mental enlargement…Real foe to be overcome…fact that large section of the public like plutocratic government, and are easily gullible. How shake them!
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By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.
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A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
November 30, 1880
Died:
January 16, 1962
(aged 81)
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