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I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
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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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
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Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
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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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