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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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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – 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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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – Blaise Pascal

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Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that were looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. – William Shatner

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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. – Will Rogers

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love. – Proverb

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken

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