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The waste of capital in proportion to the total capital in this country between 1800 and 1850 in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation was enormous.

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Communication,

Author:

William Graham Sumner
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Category: Communication

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Filth and old age I'm sure you will agree are powerful wardens upon chastity.
  • 2. There is an anti-aging possibility but it has to come from within.
  • 3. Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When you have confidence you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun you can do amazing things.
  • 2. I get such lovely gifts from fans… amazing pictures handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!
  • 3. Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet despite the discomfort the danger I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
  • 2. The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
  • 3. We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 2. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
  • 2. Architecture theory is very interesting.
  • 3. Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect I just started my own little design studio.
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