The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed,...

Christina is truly deserving of this award. She always keeps her cool on the field and leads by example. Her approach to playing exemplifies the meaning of this recognition.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

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.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Any and all copyright holders … can tell us which books they’d prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

It was nerve-wracking coming to get my results. I was totally unsure what they would be. My offer from Sheffield was three As and my insurance offer from Leeds was also three As.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every corner of the world

It’s kind of the way the season has gone for us.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally...

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project...

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.

This was a big win. These guys are a good team, so we didn’t expect that one goal to hold up.

If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and murdering one another. So beneficenceis less essential than justice is to the existence of society; alack of beneficence...

Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this.

We’re building this area between Milwaukee and Chicago as the best of both worlds. We’re just excited to bring another high-profile event here.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Every individual…generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security;...

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

You could pay down the national deficit with the cost of tickets.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or...

No complaint … is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

I’ve got to make the best of what I’ve got. I think we will be a stellar team. We’ve got a lot of young talent, but once they get the butterflies out, they will be...

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn’t get funding.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public … The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order...

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature

We want the public to be more engaged.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from...

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

We want to improve coordination and deliver services as efficiently as possible.