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๐ "The combination of westward expansion and technological innovation [in 1800s America] brought a leap in agricultural productivityโฆ In 1900, the average agricultural worker produced about two-thirds more stuff than in 1800. The productivity revolution changed the face of rural America. Women and children were increasingly liberated from backbreaking toil: women focused on domestic economy, empowered by new machines such as the sewing machine and inspired by new fads such as 'scientific housework'; and children spent more time on education. The productivity revolution also changed America as a whole. America's cattlemen and cowboys turned beef from the luxury of the rich, as it still was in Europe, into a regular treat for the massesโฆ Diets became richer and less monotonous: Americans could eat peaches from Georgia, oranges from Florida, asparagus from California, as well as staples such as been from the Midwest and cod from New England. The term 'dietician' (from "diet' and 'physician') entered the language for the first time in 1905 as people began to worry not about having too little to eat but about having too much." -๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (p. 121)
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๐ "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect out dinner but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of this fellow citizens." -๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด by Adam Smith (Book 1, Chapter 2)
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๐ "Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing, in a sense, that we would be willing to submit the direction of our societies to the collective wisdom of an imperfect and frequently disengaged public. How could we be so naรฏve? To that fair question, we must reply: how could anyone be so gullible as permanently to entrust power -- an inherently corrupting force -- to a single leader or party? When a dictator abuses his authority, there is no legal way to stop him. When a free society falters, we still have the ability -- through open debate and the selection of new leaders -- to remedy those shortcomings. We still have time to pick a better egg. That is democracy's comparative advantage, and it should be recognized and preserved." -๐๐ข๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ฎ: ๐ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ by Madeleine Albright (p. 117)
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๐ "We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life: physical, intellectual, and moral life. But life cannot support itself. He who has bestowed it, has entrusted us with the care of supporting it, of developing it, and of protecting it." -๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ธ by Frรฉdรฉric Bastiat (Section "The Law")
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๐ "[P]eople who visit doctors are more likely to be sick or even dead six months later. Why? Because sick people are the ones who go to the doctor in the first place. Healthy individuals do not. Technically, we say that the decision to visit (or call) the doctor is an ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด decision. This means that people make this decision for a reason." -๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ญ: ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข ๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด by Thomas Philippon (p. 158)
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๐ "People still tend to idealize leaders and worship them, and you must see this as a form of grandiosity. By believing someone else will make everything great, followers can feel something of this greatness. Their minds can soar along with the rhetoric of the leader. They can feel superior to those who are not believers." -๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ธ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ by Robert Greene (p. 308)
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โ๏ธ "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodyโJews or Greeks, slaves or freeโand all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,' that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body." -1 Corinthians 12:12-20 (ESV)
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๐ "The person who employs his stock in maintaining labour, necessarily wishes to employ it in such a manner as to produce as great a quantity of work as possible. He endeavours, therefore, both to make among his workmen the most proper distribution of employment, and to furnish them with the best machines which he can either invent or afford to purchase." -๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด by Adam Smith (Book 2, Introduction)
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๐ "The most important breakthrough in information [during the American railroad era] was, of course, the telegraph. Railway companies installed telegraph lines wherever they went because they needed to communicate quickly over vast distances in order to prevent trains from crashing into each otherโฆ [I]nformation that once took weeks to travel from place A to place B now took seconds." -๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge (p. 55-56)
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๐ โWeโve come to assume that the American idea can be neglected year after year after year and nonetheless endure. It canโt. Itโs an idea โ and as such, it needs to be taught and learned. It needs to be passed on and lived outโฆ [P]arents and teachersโฆ have failed to transmit the essential lessons. And weโve come to a point where widespread ignorance of who we are and what we believe threatens our futureโฆ [I]gnorance is tearing us apart at the seams.โ -๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ: ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ--๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ by Ben Sasse (p. 137)
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