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Paul Hawken

"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

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"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

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Donna Grant

"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."

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Donna Grant

"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."

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Donna Grant

"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."

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Donna Grant

"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"

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Donna Grant

"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"

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Donna Grant

"Clothes are a homeless man's home."

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Donna Grant

"Juice is a poor man's dessert."

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Donna Grant

"Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point."

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Donna Grant

"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."

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Donna Grant

"I write to escape; to escape poverty."

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Paul Hawken
"That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems."

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Paul Hawken
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."

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Paul Hawken
"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

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Paul Hawken
"That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age."

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Paul Hawken
"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."

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Paul Hawken
"Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids."

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Paul Hawken
"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."

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Paul Hawken
"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time."

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Paul Hawken
"Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future."

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Paul Hawken
"We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital."

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