Quote by Adam Smith
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far g

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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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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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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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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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bently

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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. – Jimmy Swaggart

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Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. – Theodor Adorno

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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. – Michael Haneke

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. – Victor Hugo

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Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house. – Maya Patel

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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