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T. E. Hulme: 'All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.'

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T. E. Hulme: 'Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.'

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T. E. Hulme: 'All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.'

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E. F. Schumacher: 'Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.'

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

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P. F. Strawson: 'No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.'

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P. F. Strawson: 'Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.'

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John Selden: 'In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.'

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John Selden: 'Philosophy is nothing but discretion.'

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John Selden: 'They that govern the most make the least noise.'

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John Selden: 'No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.'

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John Selden: 'The world cannot be governed without juggling.'

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John Selden: 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.'

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John Selden: 'A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.'

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