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

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Labor Day
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith

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Empire
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Science grows like a weed every year. – Kary Mullis

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. – Immanuel Kant

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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemys heels. – A. J. Liebling

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I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then Id go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. – Kevin J. Anderson

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