Quote by Adam Smith
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. – Adam Smith

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. – 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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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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What is now proved was only once imagined. – William Blake

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I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. – Juno Temple

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I believe that imagination inspires nations. Its something that I live by. – Janelle Monae

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Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning. – C. S. Lewis

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