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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
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- Woodrow Wilson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1890 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1856 to 1924; Wikidata Q34296, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34296 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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