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The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
E. F. Schumacher
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E. F. Schumacher
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 16
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Economist
Philosopher
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Bonn
Germany
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
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I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
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Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
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The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.
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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.
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