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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Any Demand Forget Happiness Hear Labor Markets Mean Men More Nations Necessities Powers Production Supply Then Thing Wealth Words

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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Absence Belief Ideas Merit Necessary Religious Religious Belief

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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Any Did Fill Good Mere Mind Place Preaching Put Something Things Vacuum

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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Awaken Itself Powers Respect Will

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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

~Frances Wright

Topics: Attention Been Civilized Engaged Enlightened Enlisted Feelings Generous Human Liberty May Nations Rightly Understood While

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Animal Curiously Directed Equally Exercise Faculties He His However Imperfect Knows Lives Man Mental Muscles Only Single Who

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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Advantages Appear Attentive Best Consideration Cooperation Equality Evident Foundation Intellectual Interests Labor Liberty May Obtained Only Perhaps Physical Sure Union Will

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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Believe Faith Know Possess Reason Understand Why You

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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Against Grounds Look Nature Opinions Out Search Things Your

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Man has been adjudged a social animal.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Animal Been Man Social

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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