Man, an animal that makes bargains. - Adam Smith

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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Adam Smith

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

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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.

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

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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.

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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

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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.

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