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Capitalism is the condition of possessing capital; the position of a capitalist; a system which favours the existence of capitalists.

— James Murray

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The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference.

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I feel that in many respects I and my assistants are simply pioneers, pushing our way experimentally through an untrodden forest, where no white man's axe has been before us.

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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

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