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... hands . Arithmetic has very little to do with progress . Even in countries like our own where every man is supposed to count one , the ballot simply demonstrates to the public eye what has previously been personally settled by the ...
... hands . Arithmetic has very little to do with progress . Even in countries like our own where every man is supposed to count one , the ballot simply demonstrates to the public eye what has previously been personally settled by the ...
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... hand or brain , is noble . It is the worker who dignifies the task , and not the task that ennobles the worker . Christ , at the lowly carpenter's bench , was grander far than he who swayed Cæsar's scepter . If he had then aspired to ...
... hand or brain , is noble . It is the worker who dignifies the task , and not the task that ennobles the worker . Christ , at the lowly carpenter's bench , was grander far than he who swayed Cæsar's scepter . If he had then aspired to ...
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... hands on , except novels . " He became proficient in the classics . He devoured all the books of science and of ... hand and do it well . Thus , step by step , you will be led up to nobler tasks and greater usefulness , with a name ...
... hands on , except novels . " He became proficient in the classics . He devoured all the books of science and of ... hand and do it well . Thus , step by step , you will be led up to nobler tasks and greater usefulness , with a name ...
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... hand to help , or giving a dollar to relieve earth's wretchedness . Do not understand me as decrying wealth . Not so ! It is not in itself an evil but a good . It can only become an evil when its possessor hoards it , to his own and ...
... hand to help , or giving a dollar to relieve earth's wretchedness . Do not understand me as decrying wealth . Not so ! It is not in itself an evil but a good . It can only become an evil when its possessor hoards it , to his own and ...
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... hand are brilliant examples of needless failure , and it is our privilege to heed the warning and steer our little craft clear of the shoals and breakers which have wrecked so many lives . Why is it ? When Euclid was explaining to ...
... hand are brilliant examples of needless failure , and it is our privilege to heed the warning and steer our little craft clear of the shoals and breakers which have wrecked so many lives . Why is it ? When Euclid was explaining to ...
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