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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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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. – Henry David Thoreau

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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. – Chinese Proverb

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Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion. – The Talmud

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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

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