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Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

Adam Smith

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

Empathy, Experience, Idea, Ideas, Men, Situation

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It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

Doe, Men, Neglect, Perform, Same, Suffering

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Besides, Economics, Purchasing, Purpose, Purposes, Serve

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Competition, Conspiracy, Invisible Hand, People, Public, Seldom

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Corn, Necessary, Silver, Superfluity

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.

Beat, Blood, Lose, Monsters, Robot, Technology

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Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. . . . If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

Gone, Know, Look, Looks, Men, Muckrake

Lawrence Lessig

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

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I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

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Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed. . . The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism.

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