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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
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
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The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
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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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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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What exists, is possible.
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In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
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If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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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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[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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With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.
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A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
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Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.
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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 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 most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
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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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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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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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