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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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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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Adam Smith
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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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Adam Smith
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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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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. – Arthur Henderson

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Peace

There is something at work thats bigger than us. Its about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you dont worry or agonize about the outcome. – Sherilyn Fenn

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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. – Brent Scowcroft

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Peace

I never will have peace of mind. Im not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible. – Julie Christie

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Life doesnt require that we be the best, only that we try our best. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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I think you can learn from history. – Chuck Norris

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