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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, an

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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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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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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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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Im a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person thats the nature of the work I do. – Joni Mitchell

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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. – Xun Zi

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Nature

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

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If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. – Edward Hopper

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He read his mind. Hes a strange sort of man, isnt he? Its not just the advice and the wisdom that he has. – Omar Sharif

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. – Paul Wellstone

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Although Im a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing… but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything. – William Shatner

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