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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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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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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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.
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I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
