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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

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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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Adam Smith
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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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Adam Smith
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, thats not equity, its just creating a society where you cant ask anything of people. – Jacques Delors

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finance

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. – William Greider

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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. – Mario Puzo

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finance

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge. – Ben Nelson

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finance

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