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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? – Adam Smith

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Happiness
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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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Money
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Adam Smith
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We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, were not there yet. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence

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Society

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men. – Catherine Deneuve

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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. – George Sand

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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it – James Allen

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I have deep respect for peoples individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting. – Andrew Denton

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It was a pleasant caf – Ernest Hemingway

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