North American Electric

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“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
—Edmund H. North (1911–1990)

“The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)