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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. – Michael Harrington

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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment. – Michael Harrington

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To those who complain of the complexity of modern life, he [Henry David Thoreau] might reply, “If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.” – Stewart Udall, The Quiet Crisis, 1963

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Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu

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I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says Im a singer. So I sing. – Tony Bennett

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The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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