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I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish “development priorities” — which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.

— John James Cowperthwaite

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We suffer a great deal today from the bogus certainties and precisions of the pseudo-sciences which include all the social sciences including economics.

An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.

A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

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