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

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Attitudes Chiefly Come Eagles Recognize Shapes Sizes Them Will You

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

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Blessing Curse Either Forgets Greatest Greatest Blessing Modern Press Printing Printing Press Sometimes Times Which

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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.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Any Bigger Complex Courage Direction Fool Genius Intelligent Lot Make More Move Opposite Opposite Direction Takes Things Touch

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

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Consumption Finite Growth Impossibility Infinite Material World

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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.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Attitude Because Contains Does Environment Fit Fulfillment Itself Life Limited Limiting Materialism Placed Principle Pursuit Seeks Short Single-Minded Strictly Wealth Which While Within World

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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.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Achievements Century Civilization Contemplate Daring Energy England Exhilaration Face Few Latter Material Part Pioneer Practical Sense Skill Splendid Technical Too Transforming Were Which Without

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

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Man Nature Part System Technology Tends Which

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

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Ambition Bad Economic Good However Masters Servants

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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Hate Love Many Others People Themselves

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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.

~E. F. Schumacher

Topics: Assure Assured Define Either Else Got Gotten Many Met Need Order Purpose Read Something Techniques Times Use Which Will You Your

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: August 16th, 1911

Died: September 4th, 1977

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