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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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To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that… — John Playfair
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Unknown Author
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens. — Ptolemy
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli
And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly. — Nancy Mitford
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz
Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes. — Frank Rich
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural… — Gunnar Myrdal

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