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A system is anything that is not chaos, and even though history seems highly chaotic at times, we have an intuitive feeling that it is not pure chaos.

— Kenneth Boulding

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

to Kenneth Boulding in: United States. Congress. House (1973)

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Communication can only take place among equals.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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