"Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces."

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Source : "Beyond the Welfare State" by Gunnar Myrdal, New Haven, 1958.

Gunnar Myrdal

#Divorce Quotes #Foxes Quotes #Finland Quotes

“There will be no Palestinian state”
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
“When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.”
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
“The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.”
“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal”
“This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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