Adam Smith Quotes
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
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Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.
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One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
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You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
