The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~ John Ruskin
Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
~ John Ruskin
Sabbatical Dreams
Hong Kong
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
~ John Ruskin
Sabbatical Dreams
Hong Kong
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If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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