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  • Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.†   (source)
  • [We] are devoutly to acknowledge that kind Providence … hath restored our city to its useful state of health and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the answer is that we have entrusted our city to a group of proselytizing tyrants who do not know how to lead us out of poverty and into prosperity.†   (source)
  • They would make new lives for themselves-peaceful, solitary lives-and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.†   (source)
  • Most magically, tile produced prosperity—more bushels per acre of a better crop, year after year, wet or dry.†   (source)
  • Every afternoon, whatever the weather, he stands in a field bawling state-sown dicta: "Prosperity depends on ferocity.†   (source)
  • "They're breaking the sign at the Great Prosperity Market!"†   (source)
  • Okonkwo's prosperity was visible in his household.†   (source)
  • I have been lenient in the past, allowing our Red brothers a good life full of prosperity, of dignity.†   (source)
  • The Depression had taken its toll here, but she could see the signs of prosperity beginning to work their way back.†   (source)
  • Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent.†   (source)
  • The only name they knew was that of Peter Wiggin, the Hegemon of Earth; the only news that came was news of peace, of prosperity, of great ships leaving the littoral of Earth's solar system, passing the comet shield and filling up the bugger worlds.†   (source)
  • Peace and prosperity would flourish, but more wondrous yet, the Riders would be brought back to gently govern over Galbatorix's fiefdoms.†   (source)
  • You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin, wearing some thread of the stolen goods: cotton or diamonds, freedom at the very least, prosperity.†   (source)
  • Part of the Second Asian Co-prosperity Sphere after the Third Sino-Japanese War.†   (source)
  • They thought their prosperity came from their own sheer brilliance.†   (source)
  • Everywhere he looked he saw evidence of the city's prosperity.†   (source)
  • The Captain, a big, expansive man who stood nearly six and a half feet tall, saw Coalwood as a laboratory for his ideas, a place where the company could bring peace, prosperity, and tranquillity to its citizens.†   (source)
  • But in the U.S., it wasn't just the prosperity—because New Orleans was not uniformly prosperous, to be sure—there was a sense that everything could be replaced, and on a whim.†   (source)
  • I like to rap about sweetened romance My fond ambition is of your pants So here is of special reinarkable way Of this fellow raps named Sushi IC The Nipponese talking phenomenon Like samurai sword his sharpened tongue Who raps the East Asia and the Pacific Prosperity Sphere, to be specific It's a typical loose slope of dirt and stones that looks like it would wash away in the first rainfall.†   (source)
  • The new prosperity enabled Carl and Margaret to buy a house five blocks away from their restaurant.†   (source)
  • The aim is that you use this money to build a life of productivity, prosperity, and philanthropy.†   (source)
  • He shall bring peace and prosperity to the world.†   (source)
  • A sea of Jewish misery washed around the small islands of relative prosperity represented by the Jewish intelligentsia and the luxurious life of the speculators.†   (source)
  • But this time our faraway vantage was desirable, because we got to take in the full scope of the Event: the impatient crowd, leaning collectively from one foot to another; the mayor atop a red-white-and-blue dais; the booming words—pride, growth, prosperity, success—rolling over us, soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.†   (source)
  • The people have such hopes the Atreides will bring peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • My father had a stable job in a bank, something I realize now that he was smug about — he saw his prosperity as a reward for talent and hard work, rather than acknowledging the luck involved.†   (source)
  • He would restore the old Kingdom of David and the people would have a future of prosperity.†   (source)
  • He'd traveled there the winter before, and no experience of his life had ever made such an impression on him; he said he felt he understood for the first time the true meaning of prosperity.†   (source)
  • It escaped no-one's notice that in Hedestad alone more than 3,000 of the town's 21,000 inhabitants were employed by the Vanger Corporation or were otherwise dependent on the prosperity of the company.†   (source)
  • Wheat, Milo seed, certified grass seed-these were the crops the farm's prosperity depended upon.†   (source)
  • They call it the prosperity dance.†   (source)
  • They will cough their lungs out deep in the bowels of the white man's mines, destroying their health, never seeing the sun, so that the white man can live a life of unequaled prosperity.†   (source)
  • Reston was one of the first planned suburbs in America, a visible symbol of the American belief in rational design and suburban prosperity, a community of gently curved streets, making arcs through landscaped neighborhoods, where disorder and chaos were given no sign of acknowledgment and no places to hide.†   (source)
  • He, too, was evidently affected by the peculiar smell of prosperity, for he paused as though in uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Despite his prosperity, Jo-Jo could not drive and did not own a car.†   (source)
  • Even I knew enough to understand what Buddha meant when he said, "Always walk the road of happiness to prosperity" They seemed miserable and loveless.†   (source)
  • He oversaw the gang's expansion and ushered in a new era of prosperity and relative peace.†   (source)
  • Happiness was accompanied by prosperity.†   (source)
  • The invaders in their officious and sensible way had brought prosperity to the city, and it had never stopped growing larger than its boundaries.†   (source)
  • All this brought the hillside more prosperity and influence, and so a road was built to the village, going right by the new Dai home.†   (source)
  • Prosperity, in the form of a fat salary from Howard, had found Tom Smith.†   (source)
  • He passed down the hall of the VA hospital that was filled with old, sick, and dying soldiers who had given their all so that the rest of the country could live in peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • She made them in the shape of fish and peaches, representing peace and prosperity, and gold bars representing wealth.†   (source)
  • From this height, nurturing life and prosperity in each isolated settlement seemed simply a matter of drawing straight lines to divert water.†   (source)
  • The nation "created by the Gods" initiated "co-prosperity" by raining terror down on Manchuria and China.†   (source)
  • As for the Hobbits of the Shire, with whom these tales are concerned, in the days of their peace and prosperity they were a merry folk.†   (source)
  • They saw the land gradually restored to prosperity.†   (source)
  • Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is the highest in the world, will last as long as… the frog?†   (source)
  • Everyone wishes you longevity and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Those prosperity-bound defectors just don't want to remember their debt to faith, he tells himself.†   (source)
  • Growth and prosperity.†   (source)
  • They are to be drawn in by degrees, until they cannot retreat…. we are breaking through all those sacred maxims of our forefathers, and giving the alarm to every wise man on the continent of America, that all his rights depend on the will of men whose corruptions are notorious, who regard him as an enemy, and who have no interest in his prosperity.†   (source)
  • He thanked me with tears flowing from his eyes and promised me-us-a life of joy and prosperity, and that as a family-"a family!" he roared-we should never know pain, loss or sadness.†   (source)
  • He had gone to London at the end of his apprenticeship, for the return and restoration of King Charles II had created prosperity among all manner of trades.†   (source)
  • Not the false prosperity of previous years, but a prosperity that those with her on these hot, still mornings can share.†   (source)
  • Even from shore its prosperity was apparent.†   (source)
  • He opened the door and stood smiling, a picture of prosperity and good will.†   (source)
  • Deo believed that most of Kagame's efforts were aimed at preventing another slaughter and at promoting prosperity -- to Deo's mind, the only way of making the current, fragile peace endure.†   (source)
  • His forefathers were poor immigrants from Ireland who quickly took advantage of America's freedoms to achieve prosperity.†   (source)
  • My objective was social progress, universal prosperity, human brotherhood and love.†   (source)
  • For one of the poets has said, 'Application to business is the root of prosperity, but those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly towards the rock of indigence'.†   (source)
  • The king would either giver her to a worthy knight, or marry her off to a neighboring prince so he could have more land with peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Warmer climate, better race relations, and rising prosperity in the region are magnets, but so is a sense of coming "home," and of a stronger black social solidarity.†   (source)
  • But ain't no farmer in Georgic seen thet prosperity Mr. Henry W. New-South Grady used to write about in them Atlanta newspapers.†   (source)
  • It is a time when the outcome will either send the territory toward peace and prosperity, or plunge its people into chaos and destruction.†   (source)
  • He didn't have any of Jackson's public charm or private temper, mannerisms that seemed to singlehandedly carry the country through eight years of prosperity.†   (source)
  • Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys.†   (source)
  • Their prosperity and growing numbers had Max considering expansion.†   (source)
  • ON ANY SATURDAY MORNING in the Village of Bedley Run, one can see everywhere the prosperity and spirit and subtle industry of its citizens.†   (source)
  • Slavery has deadened all enterprise and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Until recently, everyone agreed that America should remain united and that our prosperity depends on being one nation.†   (source)
  • Beorg's gamble had been that the tribes could be united by a common enemy and the promise of continued prosperity.†   (source)
  • We thank You for bringing the blessings of peace and prosperity to this land.†   (source)
  • Can you deny that the Overlords have brought security, peace and prosperity to the world?†   (source)
  • It was the recent war which had brought about this transition from mere prosperity to luxury, to the refurbished brownstone on Pierrepont Street and the Bonnard and the Degas (and a Pissarro landscape I was to see soon, a view of a lost country lane in the nineteenth-century wilds outside of Paris so meltingly serene and lovely that it brought a lump to my throat).†   (source)
  • But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history.†   (source)
  • President Hoover's campaign slogan—"Prosperity is just around the corner"—had become a sardonic national joke.†   (source)
  • " And at the bottom of the page was scrawled, "Dear Adam: Forget not thy servants in the days of thy prosperity.†   (source)
  • TV was new, at this time, and the Muntz TV, with its miraculous single knob, was destined to make that scruffy street a place of prosperity.†   (source)
  • Center, with disease practically conquered, great prosperity, and lodestone of a myriad peoples, had grown too crowded, especially when Long-Life sent skyward the average age of death.†   (source)
  • It is said that Balzac on his deathbed inquired anxiously after the health and prosperity of characters be had created.†   (source)
  • The prosperity of its merchants and the fabulous fertility of its soil were proverbial.†   (source)
  • She had been suffering from one of her periodic attacks of ague, and as soon as she had got rid of it she came, waddling, for she had put on a lot of fat when prosperity had returned to the land.†   (source)
  • Our lives have been marked with debate about great issues, issues of war and peace, issues of prosperity and depression.†   (source)
  • In my office today, for example, was a delegation representing New England textile mills, an industry essential to our prosperity.†   (source)
  • I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.†   (source)
  • The Fleece brought prosperity to the land.†   (source)
  • Great prosperity means to make a fortune, and making a fortune is what bad people do.†   (source)
  • Improved, and working toward a world in which people will live in wealth, comfort, and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Together we are going to make a place for justice and peace, prosperity and grandeur.†   (source)
  • Beneath her is a large plaque that reads KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO PROSPERITY.†   (source)
  • Doesn't that mean to make a lot of money, just like Great Prosperity?†   (source)
  • And the name Great Prosperity is very bad.†   (source)
  • Farther south, signs of prosperity began to reappear.†   (source)
  • He destroyed the Riders and the greatest peace and prosperity we ever had.†   (source)
  • He wanted peace and prosperity, not power!†   (source)
  • Prosperity was clearly alive and well at the foot of this Virginia mountain.†   (source)
  • And if the prophecy is correct, you will help the Amazon nation achieve prosperity.†   (source)
  • These mountains just got what they need to keep that prosperity going and their pockets filled.†   (source)
  • And every harvest, Celia cut the sugar that El Líder promised would bring prosperity.†   (source)
  • You can increase your prosperity by marrying into the right families.†   (source)
  • The war over, a fake prosperity was still around.†   (source)
  • " Saima's new prosperity has also transformed the family's educational prospects.†   (source)
  • The poster proclaimed the peaceful intentions of "co-prosperity."†   (source)
  • And is the Constitution necessary for public safety and prosperity?†   (source)
  • Dutch prosperity depended in large measure on British support for Dutch trade on the high seas.†   (source)
  • To ensure this prosperity, I was to feed monkeys on my birthday.†   (source)
  • Macondo was swamped in a miraculous prosperity.†   (source)
  • Lead us to a peaceful, scientific, industrial age and to prosperity.†   (source)
  • They had never expected to see such prosperity.†   (source)
  • Only he would lead us to greater prosperity and happiness.†   (source)
  • Prohibiting State bills of credit [paper money] is just and promotes public prosperity.†   (source)
  • Prosperity only seems to come in halves up here.†   (source)
  • How few aim at the good of the whole, without aiming too much at the prosperity of parts!†   (source)
  • If we remain united, we can counteract policies that hurt our prosperity.†   (source)
  • Yes, prosperity is here in fine abundance and here it will stay," said the mayor.†   (source)
  • Each delegate was committed to public liberty and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Good jobs, bring prosperity back to you all.†   (source)
  • Because that's where the real prosperity is, folks.†   (source)
  • Let us break the fatal charm that has seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity.†   (source)
  • The prosperity of America depends on its Union.†   (source)
  • And third, commerce is very important to both public prosperity and revenue to government.†   (source)
  • Staying united will promote American prosperity and wealth.†   (source)
  • Our present burst of prosperity depends on it.†   (source)
  • Just around the corner was not prosperity, but Uncle Hal.†   (source)
  • The human race continued to bask in the long, cloudless summei afternoon of peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • The invaders had brought peace and prosperity to Earth-but who knew what the cost might be?†   (source)
  • Nothing in Tom-Carl's face indicated that he might have a rude surprise coming to him: already, prosperity-bred independence had undermined his kingdom until it was foundering; two more elections and it would crumble into thesis material for a sociology major.†   (source)
  • The objects represent health, renewal, prosperity, fertility, and the usual universal hopes shared by people at any New Year's celebration.†   (source)
  • …other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what?†   (source)
  • The prosperity and labor peace in Greeley, however, were soon threatened by fundamental changes sweeping through the meatpacking industry — an upheaval that came to be known as "the IBP revolution."†   (source)
  • "Especially prosperity," Bewt said.†   (source)
  • The sense of distinct events that is so inescapable on a farm, where every rainstorm is thick with odor and color, and usefulness and timing, where omens of prosperity or ruin to come are sought in every change, where any of the world's details may contain the one thing that above all else you will regret not knowing, this sense lifted off me.†   (source)
  • He found a young good-looking man, almost delicate, who conveyed an air of confidence and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Attention could now be turned away from sabre-rattling to the provision of goods for the consumer, thus creating jobs and prosperity where they are most needed — "in our own backyard."†   (source)
  • It was significant, said Mr. Griffen, that all parties in the British House of Commons cheered the news, and he hoped that all parties in Canada would also cheer, as this accord would put paid to the Depression and would usher in a new "golden era" of peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • "We expected to be parted for no more than six or eight weeks, while Anatole worked with the Lumumbists to reassemble their fallen leader's plan for peace and prosperity.†   (source)
  • I just think that comfort and prosperity are not a priority for Abnegation, and maybe they would be if the other factions were involved in our decision making.†   (source)
  • Prosperity.†   (source)
  • A big crowd had gathered outside the Great Prosperity Market, one of the most successful food stores in the city.†   (source)
  • The Great Prosperity Market was on Nanjing Road, Shanghai's busiest shopping street, only two blocks from our alley.†   (source)
  • It was still impressive, although the large golden characters GREAT PROSPERITY MARKET had lost their usual shine and looked dull and lifeless on the red background.†   (source)
  • Yet so open a door to prosperity, not to say the gratification to one's vanity, that a royal appointment might offer tempted Adams not at all.†   (source)
  • The whole history of this valley in that house--desperately just throwing up enough of a cabin to keep rain off between battling the forest; then a measure of peace to add a room or two for comfort; then some prosperity, and more children, and a need to put a grand two-story face on things, and finally three generations in that house, and building not for pride but just for space, just for rooms to put folks into.†   (source)
  • Aegon the Conqueror brought fire and blood to Westeros, but afterward he gave them peace, prosperity, and justice.†   (source)
  • He is sick of what he sees as the gross imbalance between the poverty of the war-torn South and the prosperity of the North.†   (source)
  • "Obviously there are quite a few factors that determine personality, including a person's upbringing and experiences," David continues, "but despite the peace and prosperity that had reigned in this country for nearly a century, it seemed advantageous to our ancestors to reduce the risk of these undesirable qualities showing up in our population by correcting them.†   (source)
  • It was foretold that the most courageous female warrior would someday master Anion and ride him to victory, ushering in a new era of prosperity for the Amazons.†   (source)
  • Once I have bound every magician in the world to the laws of the land, imagine the peace and prosperity that shall reign.†   (source)
  • Now, my greatest concern is ensuring the peace and prosperity of the empire over which I find myself lord and master.†   (source)
  • Orik continued: "While the Riders watched over Alagaesia, we enjoyed the greatest period of prosperity ever recorded in the annals of our realm.†   (source)
  • Although the streets were empty and accordion gates stretched in front of store-fronts Papi recognized the prosperity in the buildings and in the tall operative lampposts.†   (source)
  • In her eyes he sees a happy future replete with marriage, children, and increased prosperity as he refocuses on his career.†   (source)
  • The Nationalists, led by Dr. Daniel Malan, a former minister of the Dutch Reform Church and a newspaper editor, were a party animated by bitterness—bitterness toward the English, who had treated them as inferiors for decades, and bitterness toward the African, who the Nationalists believed was threatening the prosperity and purity of Afrikaner culture.†   (source)
  • "This is exactly our Emperor's mandate," I told her, "to develop an Asian prosperity, and an Asian way of life."†   (source)
  • My father-in-law hired artisans to come to Tongkou and paint additional friezes under our eaves that would tell our neighbors and all those who would visit our village in the future of our prosperity and good luck.†   (source)
  • Here, it's a day for her to be proud, but she can't help staring at them— these smiling, polished people-and overhearing their jaunty melody of generational succession: a child's footsteps following their own, steps on a path that leads to prosperity's table and a saved seat right next to Mom and Dad.†   (source)
  • It is a time when the outcome will either send the territory toward peace and prosperity, or plunge its people into chaos and destruction.†   (source)
  • It was a delirious prosperity that even made him laugh, and he could not help doing crazy things to release his good humor.†   (source)
  • What do you think the Home Ministry has been promoting all these years, but a Pan-Asian prosperity as captained by our people?†   (source)
  • If we 4iave faith in the plans of our leaders, why, the plans will work and we'll all have prosperity and ease and plenty.†   (source)
  • I believe that I have ensured this prosperity by observing our family ritual and feeding monkeys on my birthday.†   (source)
  • Franklin Borough had grown so confident of its unending prosperity that it built a new municipal building, so opulent in its gleaming white brick that it was nicknamed the Taj Mahal.†   (source)
  • When I was born, a blind, Buddhist monk, living alone in the Burmese jungle, predicted that my birth would bring great prosperity to the family.†   (source)
  • The prosperity of it to the country will depend upon Heaven, and very little on anything in my power.†   (source)
  • "The John Galt Plan for Peace, Prosperity and Profit!" cried the announcer, while a shivering picture of the ballroom sprang into view on the screen.†   (source)
  • Aureliano bore Amaranta Ursula's spite patiently and made an effort to show her that he could be as good a husband in adversity as in prosperity, and the daily needs that besieged them when Gaston's last money ran out created a bond of solidarity between them that was not as dazzling and heady as passion, but that let them make love as much and be as happy as during their uproarious and salacious days.†   (source)
  • Using the deceptively neutral term "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," Japanese propaganda claimed that Japan's aim was to free its neighbors from white colonial rule.†   (source)
  • The very first bowl of dumplings to be served was lucky food, for the gods of the kitchen, of harvest, prosperity, long life and happiness.†   (source)
  • If they will believe, when so told, that an instrument of death is a tool of prosperity-would they not believe it if they were told that Robert Stadler is a traitor and an enemy of the State?†   (source)
  • The contrast with the bareness of China was so amazing that I started to wonder once again about America's prosperity and the stories we'd been told.†   (source)
  • It was there, from his vantage point as altar boy, murmuring the Mass prayers in Latin, that he started to notice certain men who seemed to radiate a success and prosperity that belied the general hard times.†   (source)
  • And then I look around at our pretensions and our beliefs--that we are somehow permanent--and I am reminded that it is the quality of leaders, the courage of a people, the ability to solve problems that enables us to continue for one more year, and then one more year, until our children and our grandchildren have had this freedom, this safety, this health, and this prosperity.†   (source)
  • Nabby and her family had returned from England, where William Smith's financial ventures appeared to have brought them a measure of welcome prosperity.†   (source)
  • He was declaring that the new invention was an instrument of social welfare, which guaranteed general prosperity, and that anyone who doubted this self evident fact was an enemy of society, to be treated accordingly.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, as a young man, I realized this is all real: The gap between our civilization, our prosperity, our freedoms, and all of those things is the quality of our leaders, the courage of our people, the willingness to face facts, and the willingness to work for solutions--solutions to energy, solutions to the environment, solutions to the economy, solutions to education, and solutions to national security.†   (source)
  • I'd guessed that the Chinese government would probably have lied to us about England too, but I was still overawed by its wealth and prosperity.†   (source)
  • The Japanese attitude of superiority is evident in a document from the Imperial Rule Assistance Association entitled "Basic Concepts of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere": "Although we use the expression 'Asian Cooperation,' this by no means ignores the fact that Japan was created by the Gods or posits an automatic racial equality."†   (source)
  • Yet he was as pleased by the rise of enterprise and prosperity as anyone, and in moments of discouragement over public life, even contemplated going into the China trade!†   (source)
  • Even though there were signs of prosperity everywhere and the progress I was witnessing far exceeded my expectations, still, the massive number of bicycles, the polluted air and the millions of pedestrians were all so familiar to me.†   (source)
  • At a time of desperate public need, it's our duty to sacrifice our luxurious tastes and eat our way back to prosperity by adapting ourselves to the simple, wholesome foodstuff on which the peoples of the Orient have so nobly subsisted for centuries.†   (source)
  • Co-prosperity indeed.†   (source)
  • The Golden Age was long past by the time Adams arrived—Dutch maritime power and Dutch prestige were acknowledged to be "in decline"—yet business was thriving and visitors were struck by signs of Dutch prosperity on all sides.†   (source)
  • To Jefferson in Paris he wrote, "The new government has my best wishes and most fervent prayers for its success and prosperity; but whether I shall have anything more to do with it, besides praying for it, depends on the future suffrage of freemen."†   (source)
  • Now the looters' credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt.†   (source)
  • …founded on a social compact: The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquility, their natural rights and the blessings of life; and whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, happiness, and prosperity.†   (source)
  • Now you see how important it is that you go on the air and tell people that it isn't true that Directive 10-289 is destroying industry, that it's a sound piece of legislation devised for everybody's good, and that if they'll just be patient a little longer, things will improve and prosperity will return.†   (source)
  • …snarled that the cause of the country's troubles, as this case demonstrated, was the selfish greed of rich industrialists; that it was men like Hank Rearden who were to blame for the shrinking diet, the falling temperature and the cracking roofs in the homes of the nation; that if it had not been for men who broke regulations and hampered the government's plans, prosperity would have been achieved long ago; and that a man like Hank Rearden was prompted by nothing but the profit motive.†   (source)
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