Irreversible Quote by Gunnar Myrdal

“So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.”

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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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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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