E. F. Schumacher Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
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If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
