E. F. Schumacher Quotes

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
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  • Love

• I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

  

  Idi Amin
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  • Islam

• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
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• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
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  • Real
  • Trying

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
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• My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

  

  Laura Linney
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• It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
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  • Feel
  • Laugh

• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
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• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Good
  • Society
  • Marriage

• At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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  • Day
  • End

• I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

  

  Bill Mumy
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• When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

  

  Andrew Cherng
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• I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction.

  

  Mark Boone Junior
  • Mother
  • Addiction

• That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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  • Balance

• The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

  

  John Edwards
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  • Men
  • Women

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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