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Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
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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I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
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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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Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.
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