Adam Smith Quotes
Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.
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The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men? - if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?
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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
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I think that when you make a record, an album, it has to be a discovery for the person listening to it, so you don't want to pat everything out and say 'this was that, this is definite, that's how it happened and that's what you should feel and that's what you should like or dislike'. It's personal discovery.'
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'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'
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The important thing is to end a conflict that has brought burdens to both our peoples, and above all to the people of South Viet-Nam. If you have any thoughts about the actions I propose , it would be most important that I receive them as soon as possible.
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I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.
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I think you create your own hipness.
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Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
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Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
