Adam Smith Quotes

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.

Adam Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790

Topics

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I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

Joan Collins

WorkRespectKnowNowActorOpera

To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in Russia, and White House spokesman Jay Carney appears flummoxed and wrong-footed as the mantle of free speech and liberty appears to pass from West to East.

Max Keiser

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A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste.

Steve Jurvetson

GreenWillEatBigTechWaste

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

HistoryNeverForgottenWouldTaught

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Mary Baker Eddy

ArtManReligionMoreBecauseWould

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

Miguel

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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

Joss Whedon

ChangeMistakesMeThinkLookSay

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Josh Billings

PeopleTroubleKnowMuch

The post of honour is a private station.

Joseph Addison

PostHonourPrivateStation

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

PeaceDeathGovernmentYouNewSure

I think we need a lot less ideology around health care.

Jon Ossoff

HealthThinkCareNeedIdeologyLot

When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.

Donny Osmond

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