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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.

— 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)

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