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Adam Smith Quote - The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. Free

Adam Smith

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

Adam Sandler Quote - I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. Free

Adam Sandler

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Rabindranath Tagore Quote - The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. Free

Rabindranath Tagore

The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Aeschylus Quote - For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. Free

Aeschylus

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Adam Smith Quote - Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct. Free

Adam Smith

Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.

Adam Smith Quote - The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. Free

Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

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

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith Quote - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. Free

Adam Smith

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Sandler Quote - In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it. Free

Adam Sandler

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Adam Smith Quote - The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. Free

Adam Smith

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Rabindranath Tagore Quote - The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Free

Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Adam Smith Quote - When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before. Free

Adam Smith

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

Adam Smith Quote - It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country. Free

Adam Smith

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Adam Smith Quote - Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question. Free

Adam Smith

Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

Adam Smith Quote - It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Free

Adam Smith

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.

Adam Smith Quote - I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. Free

Adam Smith

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

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