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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
Statistician
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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The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
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We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves
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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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Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
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The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
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The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.
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