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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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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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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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Money
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. – Adam Smith

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley

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Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. – Terri Guillemets

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. – Luc de Clapiers

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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! – Taslima Nasrin

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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint

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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. – Robert C. Savage, Life Lessons

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Sometimes Im dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us thats the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time. – Susan Orlean

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