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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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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Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
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The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.
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The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.
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[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
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Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?
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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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Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
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The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.
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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.
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