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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.

— John James Cowperthwaite

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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.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

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