Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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