"Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise."

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Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Hands Quotes #Fields Quotes #Damage Quotes

“...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.”
“Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”
“You're learning the whole time. Halfway through a movie, you've got a lot of ideas, a lot of things that maybe you've learned and that you then wish you could apply, but you can't. You just have to finish the movie in that world that you're in. Maybe what you've learned you can apply somewhere else.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.”
“In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.”

Source : John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
“What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.”
“We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.”
“Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.”

Source : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

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