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E. F. Schumacher

English,  Economist
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Principle Pursuit Placed

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

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Attitude Will Sizes

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

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Courage Bigger Move

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

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Technical Achievements

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

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Printing Press Which

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

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Bad Servants However

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

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Finance Impossibility

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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Stop Never Market

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

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Love Hate Themselves

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

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Production Income Ideal

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

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Which Read Gotten

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

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Technology System Which

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

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