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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was

Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. – 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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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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Humor
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Adam Smith
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Money
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Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings. – Suze Orman

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He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. – James A. Garfield

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Money

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Money

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. – Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727

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If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then thats the best of both worlds – and Ill use those computers! – Don Bluth

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We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks

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Food is our common ground, a universal experience. – James Beard

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If you never change your mind, why have one? – Edward de Bono

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