"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery,……" — Adam Smith
"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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54 Quotes by Adam Smith
Adam Smith has 54 quotes on this site.
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the…
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but…
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the…
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by…
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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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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found…
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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