"I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway."

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Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 24, 1966.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Government Quotes #Risk Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.”

Source : "Melissa McCarthy Goes Over the Top" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 2013.
“Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.”
“I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.”
“I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.”
“It would be a dream if 2015 was like 2014 or even better”
“It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.”
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Source : Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.”

Source : Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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