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Quote by Adam Smith
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. – Adam Smith

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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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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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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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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. – Billy Corgan

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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. – Edward R. Murrow

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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love. – Tiger Woods

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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. Theyll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. – Henry Louis Gates

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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work. – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them – the physical book, a new phrase in our language – is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. – Art Spiegelman

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