"Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities." — Gunnar Myrdal

"Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities."

— Gunnar Myrdal

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20 Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in…
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed…
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…
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,…
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies…
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as…
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,…
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries,…
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art… — Saint Augustine
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties… — Sai Baba
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with… — Charles Babbage

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