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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. – Adam Smith

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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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Nature
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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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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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I wont undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. – Francois Rabelais

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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace. – Daisaku Ikeda

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I was very active in the peace movement, still am. – Margot Kidder

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When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. – Greg Kinnear

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The crown of literature is poetry. – W. Somerset Maugham

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THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.

Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl. – James Russell Lowell

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When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin #infj

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A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. – James H. Douglas

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