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“It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone.”
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“Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”
― How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
― How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
“Rather than revving up our feelings of injustice, Smith is telling us a way to find serenity. Wag more, bark less.”
― How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
― How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”
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“Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.”
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
― Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
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