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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress

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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper

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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature

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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

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