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Quote by Herman E. Daly

“While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.”

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Herman E. Daly is a renowned economist known for his contributions to the field of sustainable development. His research in environmental and ecological economics has had a profound impact on global policy-making. more

“If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.”

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Author:Herman E. Daly

“The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.”

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Author:Herman E. Daly

“Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.”

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Book:I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

“I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.”

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Book:I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.”

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Author:Paul Rudnick

“I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The Wild Party. A helicopter should have descended and taken me away to a gay penal colony. But of course, I was already there.”

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Author:Paul Rudnick

“Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, 'It's okay, I'm from New Jersey.' I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in 'Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.'”

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Book:I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

“What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.”

Needs Poor Charity Coworker Overabundance

Author:Clarence Jordan

“The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.”

Source: The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons

“Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities”

Dream Reality Deeds Unseen Betting

Book:Cotton Patch Gospel: Hebrews and the General Epistles

Source: Cotton Patch Gospel: Hebrews and the General Epistles

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