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“Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.”

“There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.”

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Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

“The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.”

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Book:Passport Photos

Source: Passport Photos

“The invisible hand never picks up the check.”

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Author:Kim Stanley

“As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.”

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Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.”

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Book:The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

“People who intend only to seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no part of” their intention. I say that there is a reverse invisible hand: People who intend to serve only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no part of their intention.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.”

“Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield