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Toastmasters Speech
Thursday, I gave an “Inspire Your Audience” speech to USPTO Toastmasters, talking about, among other things, how I had read Henry George’s Progress and Poverty as a teenager, and been inspired. I said that, despite my father’s misgivings, I had majored in physics in college; he thought that I ought to study economics, since I was so interested in that.
I gave the audience a quote from someone else who had majored in physics: “Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation has many important things to learn from Henry George.” The physicist who said that was Albert Einstein.
I gave the audience a quote from someone else who had majored in physics: “Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation has many important things to learn from Henry George.” The physicist who said that was Albert Einstein.