Quote by Adam Smith
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and

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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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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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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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. – Adam Smith

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Empire
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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. – William Davis

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Humor

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and theyre short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. – Sergio Aragones

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Humor

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. – Milos Forman

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Humor

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Humor

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Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

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Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesnt guarantee success, but without it you dont have a chance. – Alex Rodriguez

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…trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer. – A veteran NFL referee describing his duties, quoted in Richard Saul Wurman, Amer

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Super Bowl