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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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The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
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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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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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Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.
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Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?
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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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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
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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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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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Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.
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The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.
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Economists and technologists bring the bits, but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the wits.
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[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.
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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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[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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The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
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Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
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