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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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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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.
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I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.
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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
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Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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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.
