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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of

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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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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Genius
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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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Confidence
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. – Confucius

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Prosperity

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. – Samuel Johnson

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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. – Ben Kingsley

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. – Mark Twain

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