"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

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Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

Adam Smith

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“The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?”
“Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.”
“Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.”
“Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.43, Univ of California Press
“I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plots, blockades, and interventions made them lose their heads. All evidence indicates that revolutionary tribunals, functioning in the light of day and admitting the right of defence, would have attained the same efficiency with far less abuse and depravity. Was it necessary to revert to the procedures of the Inquisition?”
“I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'”
“By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.”

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