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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

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

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

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Martin Luther

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ

Martin Luther

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Martin Luther

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Martin Luther

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Adam Sandler

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Martin Luther

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

Adam Sandler

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Martin Luther

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Adam Sandler

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Martin Luther

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Adam Sandler

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Adam Sandler

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho

I don't try to control my days.

Paulo Coelho

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Paulo Coelho

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Paulo Coelho

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Paulo Coelho

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

I don't go to parties in general.

Paulo Coelho

I'm not a person that socializes very well.

Paulo Coelho

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Martin Luther

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Paulo Coelho

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

Quincy Jones

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Quincy Jones

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

Quincy Jones