Adam Smith Quotes

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

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• I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

  

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• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

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• I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

  

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• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

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• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

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• Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

  

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• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

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• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

  

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• Nobles’ sons are one of nature’s great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.

  

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• I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

  

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• In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

  

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• The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

  

  Adam Smith