"I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the more particularly if this is to be based on bureaucratic views of what is good and what is bad by way of industrial development. An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands."

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Source : "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 116), October 9, 1970.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Growing Up Quotes #Views Quotes #Support Quotes

“Im involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.”
“How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.200, New Directions Publishing
“Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.”
“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.”
“Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world”
“You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.”
“The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.”
“Pity those who don't feel anything at all”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2015). “A Court of Thorns and Roses”, p.311, Bloomsbury Publishing

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