Adam Smith Quotes, People Quotes, Pockets Quotes

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

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Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

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The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more desperate than they are now about the things they think they've missed. I think one of the unintended results of the embargo is that Cuba is quite consumerist - and I'm talking about the people, not the government or the official propaganda.

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Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony

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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

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I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her.

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If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , People Quotes , Bed Quotes

I get up to 400 letters a week, so I have a full-time PA, but I try to answer everything. People don't seem to realise that if they send something living in the post it's going to die on the way. Especially when you wrap it in a polythene bag.

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What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , People Quotes , Needs Quotes

Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations.

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Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , People Quotes , Weakness Quotes

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.

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