“ Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ”
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“ The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from overrating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice overrates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vainglory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a welldisposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice. ”
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“ Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ”
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“ Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books. ”
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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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“ Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ”
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“ Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ”
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“ Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this — one dog does not change a bone with another. ”
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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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“ Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. ”
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“ Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. ”
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“ This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. ”
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“ The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. ”
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“ The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. ”
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“ This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. ”
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“ 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. ”
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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 self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. ”
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“ What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ”
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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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