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Quote by Adam Smith
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another

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

Other quotes by Adam Smith

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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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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We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. – Tom Daschle

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finance

Lets not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns. – Fred Thompson

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finance

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. – Carol Moseley Braun

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finance

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration – but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. – Evo Morales

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finance

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I dont want to own anything that wont fit into my coffin. – Fred A. Allen

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There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. – Havelock Ellis

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