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Quote for the day – February 7

07 Sunday Feb 2016

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“If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – February 2

02 Tuesday Feb 2016

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“In the subtle system of nature, technology, and in particular the super-technology of the modern world, acts like a foreign body, and there are now numerous signs of rejection”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – January 20

20 Wednesday Jan 2016

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“What is the point of economic progress, a so-called higher standard of living, when the earth, the only earth we have, is being contaminated by substances which may cause malformations in our children or grandchildren?”

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – January 12

12 Tuesday Jan 2016

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“The cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom. It is also the antithesis of freedom and peace. Every increase of needs tends to increase one’s dependence on outside forces over which one cannot have control, and therefore increases existential fear”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – January 3

03 Sunday Jan 2016

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“What is to take the place of the soul- and life-destroying metaphysics inherited from the nineteenth century? The task of our generation, I have no doubt, is one of metaphysical reconstruction”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – December 27

27 Sunday Dec 2015

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“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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Quote for the day – October 9

09 Friday Oct 2015

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“The ‘logic of production’ is neither the logic of life nor that of society. It is a small and subservient part of both. The destructive forces unleashed by it cannot be brought under control, unless the ‘logic of production’ itself is brought under control – so that destructive forces cease to be unleashed”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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