Adam Smith Quotes
Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
Adam Smith
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As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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?
Henry David Thoreau
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All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
Anaxagoras
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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.'
Morrissey
The Smiths
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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.'
Jean-Paul Sartre
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.
Mark Bradford
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For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.
John Williams
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.
Jeffrey Toobin
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Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'
Ian Rush
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Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.
Adam Smith
