“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
“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 self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages”
― An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1
― An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol 1
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
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hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as
much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
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