Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
ADAM SMITH
Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
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Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
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Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
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Defense is superior to opulence.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
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The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.
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Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.
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It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
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