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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence... - MORE No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature.

Susan B. Anthony

independence | subordination of women | self-support

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Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget thi... - MORE Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

universities and colleges | education

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Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord wit... - MORE Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

John Kenneth Galbraith

solutions

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The thirty thousand dollars is not the annual expense of the Executive Mansion. That may not be over twenty-five thousand dollars ... - MORE The thirty thousand dollars is not the annual expense of the Executive Mansion. That may not be over twenty-five thousand dollars but it is about right for my total expenses. I have paid between six thousand dollars and seven thousand dollars for political purposes for the advantage of the Republican cause ... and rather large expenditures for dependents.... I shall leave here in debt from twenty thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars, but with a good credit, plenty of property, and in no sense needing pecuniary aid or sympathy.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

presidential expenses

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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out. Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

George Bernard Shaw

income, equality of

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I am glad to read what you say of his social nature. I think I may say that he was wholly unpretending; and there was this peculia... - MORE I am glad to read what you say of his social nature. I think I may say that he was wholly unpretending; and there was this peculiarity in his aim, that though he had pecuniary difficulties to contend with the greater part of his life, he always studied how to make a good article, pencil or other (for he practiced various arts), and was never satisfied with what he had produced. Nor was he ever disposed in the least to put off a poor one for the sake of pecuniary gain,—as if he labored for a higher end.

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau, John | workers | labor

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The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a p... - MORE The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

labor | money

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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means ... - MORE The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Thorstein Veblen

leisure

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If a man is a good lawyer, a good physician, a good engineer ... he may be a fool in every other capacity. But no deficiency or mi... - MORE If a man is a good lawyer, a good physician, a good engineer ... he may be a fool in every other capacity. But no deficiency or mistake of judgment is forgiven to a woman ... and should she fail anywhere, if she has any scientific attainment, or artistic faculty, instead of standing her interest as an excuse, it is censured as an aggravation and offence.

E.P. P.

men and women | wisdom

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...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty... - MORE ...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.

Mary Pickford

self-support | responsibility

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