Adam Smith Quotes
The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.
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Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.
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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
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As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
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The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations.
