“The store customer, who comes home with a package under his arm has learned nothing, except that a ten dollar bill is a source of power in the market place. The man or woman who has converted material into needed products via tools and skills has matured in the process.”
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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