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Adam Smith Quotes

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love Challenge Problems Try Pure

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

Angie Stone

Stars Feel Stone Happen Up Magical

Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.

Michael Carbonaro

Nature Me Way Never First Playful

It's not unreasonable to ask folks to stay clean in order to receive federal assistance.

Stephen Fincher

Clean Ask Order Stay Unreasonable

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tracy Morgan

Smart You Dumb Intelligent Joke Get

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

Tom Hayden

City Data You Ten Years Look Lost

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.

Tom Vilsack

Health Focus People Better Situation

I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera and how to light and how to edit - and I became a film editor.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Light Camera You Summer Know Class

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Carroll

Children Time People Hands Young

Twitter needs to continue being a good listener and recognize that the service has been redefined by lots of people, tweet by tweet, but also come up with its own priorities.

Dick Costolo

Good Service People Priorities Own

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.

Chris Van Allsburg

Walk Believe Evening Meet Fairy

As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don't like to look at it.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Past Ignore Look Country Like Our