"Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful."

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Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

E. F. Schumacher

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“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”
“A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives, there can be no values. And without values, there can be no reason for a code of ethics. What gives our lives meaning is which alternatives we choose. If we have no options, if we can take but one path, we are by definition slaves.”
“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”
“If I'm not working and I'm here and bored, I'll go online and look for a new thing or kind of make up my own.”

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“Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life”
“Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.”

Source : "Alastair Cook gives England total control against shambolic India" by Mike Selvey, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2011.
“Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.”
“The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.”

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