1. A.F.M. Smith - “Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.”

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2. Adam Smith - “To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent Affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.”

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3. Adam Smith - “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm And superstition.”

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4. Adam Smith - “It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.”

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5. Adam Smith - “I have no faith in political arithmetic.”

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6. 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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.”

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7. Adam Smith - “Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, But by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

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8. Adam Smith - “Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.”

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9. Adam Smith - “Modern critics of the Conquest have an unlikely ally in the eighteenth-century prophet of laissez-faire economics: 'It is not by the importation of gold and silver, that the discovery of America has enriched Europe. ...The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe. A new set of exchanges, therefore, began t o take place which had never been thought of before, and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new, as it certainly did to the old continent. The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries.'”

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10. Adam Smith - “As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.”

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11. Adam Smith - “The market will not go up unless it goes up, nor will it go down unless it goes down, and it will stay the same unless it does either.”

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12. Alexander Smith - “Everything is sweetened by risk.”

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13. Alexander Smith - “Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”

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14. Alexander Smith - “To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”

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15. Alexander Smith - “Each time we love, We turn nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.”

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16. Alexander Smith - “A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.”

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17. Alexander Smith - “It is no of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.”

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18. Alexander Smith - “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

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19. Alexander Smith - “Love the fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays, The churlish thistles, scented briers, The wind-swept bluebells on the sunny braes, Down to the central fires, Exist alike in Love. Love is a sea Filling all the abysses dim Of lornest space, in whose de”

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20. Alexander Smith - “A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.”

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21. Alexander Smith - “Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.”

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22. Alexander Smith - “If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.”

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23. Alexander Smith - “It is curious, pathetic almost, how deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

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24. Alexandra Smith - “It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it.”

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25. Alfred E. Smith - “Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.”

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