"There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state."

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Source : Karl Polanyi (1957). “The Great Transformation”, Beacon Pr

Karl Polanyi

#Subsidies Quotes #Cotton Quotes #Tariffs Quotes

“If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.”
“You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.”
“Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.”
“You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.”
“In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.”
“Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.”

Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.160, Macmillan
“I'm not a natural born performer.”

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