E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
Quotes to Explore
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
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One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.
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I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them.
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I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.
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Radio Shack is continuously seeking new ways to ensure we are providing the American consumer with greater value.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
