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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and mor

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. – E.F. Schumacher

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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. – E.F. Schumacher

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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. – E.F. Schumacher

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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