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375 Scottish Quotes
375 Scottish Quotes
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
Because
Change
Deeds
Fail
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
Begin
Change
Disappearing
History
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R. D. Laing
Destroying
Effectively
Love
Ourselves
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R. D. Laing
Along
Climbs
Creative
CreativePeople
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
R. D. Laing
Early
Induced
Infancy
Trance
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R. D. Laing
Adjustment
Insane
Insanity
Perfectly
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing
Achieved
Alienation
Beings
Destiny
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
Children
Curiosity
Easily
Get
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. Laing
Condition
Event
Fact
Label
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R. D. Laing
Depends
Life
Living
Love
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing
Avoid
Avoided
Deal
Great
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing
Belongs
Class
Culture
How
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
Assume
Being
False
Feel
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
R. D. Laing
Also
Breakdown
Death
Enslavement
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R. D. Laing
Behavior
Experience
Gets
Labeled
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Adam Smith
Belief
Matter
Money
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith
Aspirations
Poor
Poverty
Real
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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.
Adam Smith
Baker
Benevolence
Butcher
Dinner
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Adam Smith
Affected
Done
Good
Known
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith
Animal
Another
Bargain
Bones
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Adam Smith
Finger
Happiness
Lays
Never
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
Added
Clear
ClearConscience
Conscience
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
Chief
Consists
Enjoyment
Greater
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Affections
Benevolent
Constitute
Exercise
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith
Any
Become
Country
Demand
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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 purchased.
Adam Smith
AllThings
First
Gold
Labour
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Adam Smith
Antidote
Enthusiasm
Great
Poison
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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.
Adam Smith
Absorb
After
Changes
Detail
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam Smith
Baffled
Cases
Facts
Imagination
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Adam Smith
Ambiguity
City
Had
Pass
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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.
Adam Smith
Adventure
Approach
Certain
Certainty
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Adam Smith
Defense
Opulence
Superior
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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.
Adam Smith
Animals
Another
Barter
Common
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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.
Adam Smith
Been
Defense
Given
Innocence
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Adam Smith
Generosity
Humanity
Man
Virtue
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Adam Smith
Common
Complaint
Money
More
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
Adam Smith
AllThings
First
Labor
Money
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith
Because
Conscience
Excess
Feared
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
Far
Flourishing
Greater
Happy
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith
Altogether
Ambition
Desire
Directing
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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.
Adam Smith
Corrects
Customers
Discipline
Effectual
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
Any
Cheerfulness
Christian
Course
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
About
Administration
Barbarism
Being
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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.
Adam Smith
Active
Banking
Capital
Country
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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.
Adam Smith
Attended
Consumer
Consumption
End
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
Irvine Welsh
About
Am
Hate
I Am
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Irvine Welsh
Afford
Basically
Books
Britain
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
Irvine Welsh
Almost
Any
Been
Book
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Irvine Welsh
Act
Any
Being
Concept
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Irvine Welsh
Blank
Blank Page
Enjoy
Freedom
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