Adam Smith Quotes
A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.
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The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
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A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
