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The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.
E. F. Schumacher
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E. F. Schumacher
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 16
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Economist
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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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