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Social welfare—that's the chief interest I have ever had. People are wrong in thinking that the best incentive is competition. Competition is good, but only as the instrument for the common good.

— Gertrude Weil

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It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do.

every...act should be an expression of the God, or goodness, in us.

men should look into their own lives, see their many doings, their sins (if you will), repent of them, [and] lead bettter lives than [in] their past.

I wondered why people made speeches in favor of something so obviously right,...Women breathed the same air, got the same education; it was ridiculous, spending so much energy and elocution on something rightfully theirs.

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