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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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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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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. – Adam Smith

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Business
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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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Other Quotes from
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Nature

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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Nature

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nature

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The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. – Leonard Bernstein

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

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Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. Youre a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust. – Jessica Hahn

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Trust

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isnt in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. – Jensen Ackles

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