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Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

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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Economist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
City of Liverpool
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Hypocrisy
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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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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
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Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.
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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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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.
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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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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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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?
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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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In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
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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 integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.
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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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