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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 order of things.

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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…
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be…
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium…
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural…
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost…
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate…
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order… — John Berger
Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. — Julia Cameron
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention… — Lise Meitner
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than… — Marin Mersenne
Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and… — Christopher Hitchens
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order,… — Nadia Boulanger
Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move… — Fulton J. Sheen
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton
I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons... — Sidney Poitier
When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a… — Marianne Williamson
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't.… — Michael Robotham
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things — Douglas Adams

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