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What we're doing here is completely in line with the principles of fair use. We think this will help more users discover their books, and buy their books. - Adam Smith Quotes

What we're doing here is completely in line with the principles of fair use. We think this will help more users discover their books, and buy their books.

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. - Adam Smith Quotes

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.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations - Adam Smith Quotes

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations

Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. - Adam Smith Quotes

Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. - Adam Smith Quotes

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? - Adam Smith Quotes

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Conscience Quotes

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. - Adam Smith Quotes

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.

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. - Adam Smith Quotes

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.

Worth

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. - Adam Smith Quotes

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.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. - Adam Smith Quotes

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Conscience Quotes

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes. - Adam Smith Quotes

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Man

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. - Adam Smith Quotes

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. - Adam Smith Quotes

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. - Adam Smith Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Interest Quotes

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. - Adam Smith Quotes

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Generosity Quotes

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable - Adam Smith Quotes

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature - Adam Smith Quotes

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. - Adam Smith Quotes

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. - Adam Smith Quotes

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. - Adam Smith Quotes

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Quotes Superstition

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. - Adam Smith Quotes

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.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. - Adam Smith Quotes

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Happiness 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 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.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. - Adam Smith Quotes

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. - Adam Smith Quotes

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

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. - Adam Smith Quotes

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.

Conversation Trade Unions

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness. - Adam Smith Quotes

The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

Defense is superior to opulence. - Adam Smith Quotes

Defense is superior to opulence.

No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. - Adam Smith Quotes

No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex. - Adam Smith Quotes

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world - Adam Smith Quotes

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God - Adam Smith Quotes

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God

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 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.

Adventure Quotes

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country - Adam Smith Quotes

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches - Adam Smith Quotes

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. - Adam Smith Quotes

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith Quotes

All money is a matter of belief.

Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library. - Adam Smith Quotes

Any and all copyright holders ... can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

Books And Reading

This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books. - Adam Smith Quotes

This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimately write more books.

Books And Reading

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. - Adam Smith Quotes

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help. - Adam Smith Quotes

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

Iraq looks messier and messier. Gasoline prices have soared. The president's controversial plans for overhauling Social Security give Democrats a big cudgel to hammer Republicans among seniors. - Adam Smith Quotes

Iraq looks messier and messier. Gasoline prices have soared. The president's controversial plans for overhauling Social Security give Democrats a big cudgel to hammer Republicans among seniors.

When EAA began the 'Timeless Voices' project in 2002, we sought to record the personal histories of a remarkable aviation generation that was passing from our midst. We have saved many stories from people who now, just a few years later, are no longer with us. - Adam Smith Quotes

When EAA began the 'Timeless Voices' project in 2002, we sought to record the personal histories of a remarkable aviation generation that was passing from our midst. We have saved many stories from people who now, just a few years later, are no longer with us.

We don't have permission to do that. We're a finding tool, like a digital card catalog. - Adam Smith Quotes

We don't have permission to do that. We're a finding tool, like a digital card catalog.

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn't get funding. - Adam Smith Quotes

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn't get funding.

We want to improve coordination and deliver services as efficiently as possible. - Adam Smith Quotes

We want to improve coordination and deliver services as efficiently as possible.

This was a big win. These guys are a good team, so we didn't expect that one goal to hold up. - Adam Smith Quotes

This was a big win. These guys are a good team, so we didn't expect that one goal to hold up.

You could pay down the national deficit with the cost of tickets. - Adam Smith Quotes

You could pay down the national deficit with the cost of tickets.

Cost

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. - Adam Smith Quotes

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world.

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders . . . can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library. - Adam Smith Quotes

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders . . . can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

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