Adam Smith Quotes
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
Adam Smith
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
Gamaliel Bailey
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
Orlando Bloom
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
Iman
There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
Faye Marsay
I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
Natalie Cole
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
H. R. Giger
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
Zaha Hadid
It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.
P. J. O'Rourke
No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.
Samuel Beckett
There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
Natalie Portman
Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
Jimmy Swaggart
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
Michel Foucault
Insurrection ... never brings about the desired improvement. For insurrection lacks discernment; it generally harms the innocent more than the guilty. Hence, no insurrection is ever right, no matter how right the cause it seeks to promote.
Martin Luther
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
Leon Panetta
I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
Rickey Medlocke
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
Adam Smith
