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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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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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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Peace
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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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Unions
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I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be. – Josh Gad

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Humor

Rock Hudson wasnt my type. Hes a great guy and had a great sense of humor. – Tab Hunter

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Humor

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product. – Allen Klein

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Humor

Humor results when society says you cant scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. – Tom Walsh

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Humor

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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. – Aldrich Ames

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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. – Brian Tracy

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