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“In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce and worldly pursuits.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Good jobs depend on expanded trade. Selling into new markets creates new jobs, so I ask Congress to finally approve trade promotion authority.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“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.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“If nuclear power makes them dangerous, a sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship, based on the hated supremacy of a foreign spiritual power, which, once it weakens ever so slightly, can only fall...” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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