Adam Smith Quotes
The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.
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The podcast most likely to encourage you to fully appreciate your food is the episode of BBC World Service's 'The Food Chain' in which Antonio Carluccio talks to Emily Thomas about his life in five dishes.
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I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.
