“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau, book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

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Journals (1838-1859)
Source: Walden

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“No great amount of experience is required to discover that the greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.”

André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer

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“[Task uncertainty is] the difference between the amount of information required to perform the task and the amount of information already possessed by the organisation.”

Jay R. Galbraith (1939–2014) American business theorist

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“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”

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Ronald H. Coase (1910–2013) British economist and author

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“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.”

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