"My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that produces public revenue and to whom accrues the benefit of public spending."

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Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Appreciation Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Views Quotes

“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.
“The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.”
“Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.”
“It is more important to influence people than to impress them.”
“Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagasâ€”why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" Â "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?" Â "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.”

Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK
“Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.474
“If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!”

Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.95, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
“A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.”

Source : Toronto Star, November 30, 1928.

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