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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.
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
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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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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.
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