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The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.
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The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.