"Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it."

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Source : "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

E. F. Schumacher

#Wind Quotes #Sail Quotes #Raises Quotes

“I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.”
“We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.”
“We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.”
“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”
“Men don't hear women.”
“Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.”
“As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What we're trying to look for is a process that is not responding to political pressures, but one that is responding to economic reality, because I do believe ... that it's in the best interest of the Chinese people to allow a market-based currency.”

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