Have lots of experiments, but make sure they’re strategically focused.
ADAM SMITHLabor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
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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.
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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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By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
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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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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
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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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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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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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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 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.
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The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.
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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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