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Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

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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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In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he… — Jerry Sloan
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Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever. — Alexander H. Stephens
If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But… — Benjamin Franklin
Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy — Gunnar Myrdal
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. — Seneca the Younger
Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that… — Sydney J. Harris
It is not easy to recover an art when once lost. — Oliver Goldsmith
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen

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