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“The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are “too great for private industry.” This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the tax payer’s money that no one is willing to take with his own.”
― Economics in one lesson: By Henry hazlitt
― Economics in one lesson: By Henry hazlitt
“Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.”
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“To an economist, no action is really a mistake, it's just an optimal answer to a different question.”
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“omne verum, a quocumque dicatur, a spiritu sancto est”
― Summa Theologica
― Summa Theologica
“Lamps are made needless by the advent of the sun; and, on the appearance of the truth, the occupation of the Law is gone, and prophecy is hushed into silence. He, on the contrary, who has been empowered to look down into the depth of the meaning of the Law, and, after passing through the obscurity of the letter, as through a veil, to arrive within things unspeakable, is like Moses taking off the veil when he spoke with God. He, too, turns from the letter to the Spirit.”
― Basil: Letters and Select Works
― Basil: Letters and Select Works
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