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"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."
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"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."
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"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
Adventure
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
Nature
"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
Nation
"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 interest."
Economy
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
Virtue
"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
Virtue
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
People
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
Fear
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
Science
"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."
Man
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