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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
Kenneth E. Boulding
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Kenneth E. Boulding
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: January 18
Died: 1993
Died: March 18
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
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[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.
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In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy society is an example of the general concept of an ecosystem that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.
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[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.
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The economy of the future might be called the spaceman economy, in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.
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Communication can only take place among equals.
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We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.
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There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.
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The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.
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If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
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With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.
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Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
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The concept of a value-free science is absurd.
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Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.
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Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message.
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Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
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The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
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Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
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