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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for ce

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. – Adam Smith

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. – Adam Smith

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finance
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Adam Smith
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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Society
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Adam Smith
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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Money
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Adam Smith
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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then were in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. – David Eddings

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Science

Of course, not everybodys willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, – if the experiments dont work, then it means its not science. – Seth Lloyd

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Science

The mortuarial remains of science are laid out for you in the text-books and the standard and approved journals. If you want live stuff, look in the village papers. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Science

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity. – Joseph Rotblat

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Science

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If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. – Larry Leissner

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When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. – Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," Essays

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Letters

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Certainty

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. – Michael Pollan

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Food