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There are 42 quotes for the author Adam Smith

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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.
Subject: Computers

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

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.

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.

Defense is superior to opulence.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

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

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.

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.

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.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

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.

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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