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The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
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Boulding (1986) "Proceedings of the 7th Friends Association for Higher Education Conference, Malone College, 1986" p.4, quoted in Debora Hammond, The Science of Synthesis, Colorado: University of Colorado Press, 2003.

 

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