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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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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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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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Science
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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Nature
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. – Coco Chanel

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External nature is only internal nature writ large. – Swami Vivekananda

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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. – John Coltrane

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I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. – Lord Dunsany

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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. – Pietro Aretino

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To err is human, to purr is feline. – Robert Byrne

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We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education. – Suze Orman

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