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Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
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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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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... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.
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[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.
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All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
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Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
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