Gunnar Myrdal quoteGunnar Myrdal [1898-1987]
Swedish Economist 
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| Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. |
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