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• Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

  Henry George

  Men, Influence, Imagine

  Henry George (1884). “Social Problems”

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• A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

  Henry George

  Very Good, Admirable

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 31), 1982.

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• Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

  Henry George

  Sunshine, Men, Creative

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

  Henry George

  Business, Wages, World

  Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

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• Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

  Henry George

  Business, Progress, Social

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

  Henry George

  Wisdom, Men, Numbers

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.

  Henry George

  Gentleman, Tools, Use

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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