People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
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Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.
Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
