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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest…
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Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
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It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
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America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be…
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The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium…
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All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural…
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So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
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In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost…
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In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate…
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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been…
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest…
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with…
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Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for…
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be…
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is…
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the…
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