"The proposition that the meek (that is the……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution."
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25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding
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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.…
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The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human…
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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…
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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…
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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
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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…
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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,…
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
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More Adaptable Quotes
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which…
— David Cameron
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I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union…
— David Cameron
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We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like…
— Yvon Chouinard
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I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
— Winston Churchill
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative…
— Sven Birkerts
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We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that…
— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
— Edna Ferber
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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in…
— Unknown Author
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to…
— Saul Alinsky
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
— Daniel Wolpert
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I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love…
— Julie Delpy
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