"It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment."

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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

— George F. Kennan