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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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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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How many things are there which I do not want. – Socrates

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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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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. – Edwin Way Teale

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