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Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song.

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Kenneth E. Boulding

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. . . . any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. . . . there is no great value in consumption itself.

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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The use of isoquants to describe the production function did not develop to any great extent until the thirties.

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At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

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A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding to the complexity of the "individuals" of the various empirical fields. . . leading towards a "system of systems. ". . . I suggest below a possible arrangement of "levels" of theoretical discourse. . . . (vi). . . the "animal" level, characterized by increased mobility, teleological behavior and self-awareness.

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A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

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