Adam Smith Quotes
But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
Quotes to Explore
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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I love the French horn.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through We'll all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.
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I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.
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It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!
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Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'
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But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.
