E. F. Schumacher Quotes
The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I watch a lot of football.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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FinCEN directs financial institutions to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) to inform law enforcement of certain types of cyber-enabled crime. As the agency charged with protecting the United States from financial crime, FinCEN's guidance does not deem financial institutions who process such transactions to be involved in a criminal activity.
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The hand is no different from what it creates.
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Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
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My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
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Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
