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The greater efficiency which education gives to all sorts of labor, except the rudest, makes up in a short period for the time lost in acquiring it.

— Edward Bellamy Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)

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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

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An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

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Manual labor meant association with a rude, coarse, and ignorant class of people. There is no such class now.

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Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

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