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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Crime Which Bankrupts Men And Nations

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. i think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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The idea that the state originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. it originated in conquest and confiscation - that is to say, in crime. it originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.
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