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Economic independence is a relative condition at best.
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To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.
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Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.
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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 progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.
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The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.