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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?

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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. - 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.

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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. - 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.

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