"It is not from the benevolence of the……" — Adam Smith
"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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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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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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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he…
— Honore de Balzac
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
— Marina Abramovic
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Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else…
— Andy Rooney
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I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker
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I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.
— Johnnie Ray
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Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and…
— Unknown Author
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I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were…
— Arabella Weir
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of…
— Ernst Junger
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Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had…
— Julia Child
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the…
— Polly Adler
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When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker.
— Zach Braff
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In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one…
— Ann Hood
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