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 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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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
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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.