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Quote by Adam Smith
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our s

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – 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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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – Adam Smith

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Unions
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All men by nature desire to know. – Aristotle

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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. – Marilyn Monroe

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All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after. – Dr. Robert Anthony

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I created the Womens Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women dont need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam. – Sun Myung Moon

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We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. – Mahmoud Abbas

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What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they dont believe it will change. And I just want to say: It does! High school ends and its over. I will tell anyone that its OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over. – Alice Englert

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