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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
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"In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people."

People Simple Philosophy
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Adam Smith Philosopher, Economist
People

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

People Competition Invisible Hand
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Adam West Actor
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"How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go."

People Culture Movie
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Bertolt Brecht Playwright, Poet
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"Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?"

People Government Party
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Upton Sinclair Novelist, Activist
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"Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters."

People Two Political
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

People Smart Passivity Is
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."

People Book Sight
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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet
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"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."

People Way Achieve
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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
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"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all."

People Fighting Water
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people."

People Beautiful Essentials
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day."

People Baby Color
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

People Stars Science
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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."

People Mind Hitchhiking
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea."

People Cutting Sea
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