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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,…
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders…
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The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have…
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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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Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of…
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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir,…
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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…
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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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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With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
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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…
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he…
— P T Barnum
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics…
— Saul Alinsky
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
— James F. Cooper
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which…
— Susan Sontag
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If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or…
— Brad Pitt
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
— Euripides
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The profit motive is not only fundamental to our ability to reward shareholders and pay employees; it's fundamental to excellent journalism. Far…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…
— James Madison
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are…
— Jack Nicholson
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The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
— Francois Mauriac
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