In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the … - Adam Smith

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Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

Adam Smith

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.

Competition, Division, Branches, Branch, Public

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It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

Doe, Men, Neglect, Perform, Same, Suffering

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Besides, Economics, Purchasing, Purpose, Purposes, Serve

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.

Competition, Conspiracy, Invisible Hand, People, Public, Seldom

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Corn, Necessary, Silver, Superfluity

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Beat, Blood, Lose, Monsters, Robot, Technology

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If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?

Bleach, Love You, Mouth, Snakes, Today, Tomorrow

Jacques Yves Cousteau

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

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Neale Donald Walsch

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation. ' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God. '

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Ray Bradbury

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

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