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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are

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 simplify complications is the first essential of success. – George Earle Buckle

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More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination. – Elbert Hubbard

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