Adam Smith Quotes
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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South Central is just who I am.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.
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Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
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Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.
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partition of Ireland, ... the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.
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Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!
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When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.
