Quote by Bill Vaughan
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplan

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. – Bill Vaughan

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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. – Bill Vaughan

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Insects
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he wont take it, but somebody always does. – Bill Vaughan

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Politics
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Prosperity
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Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. – Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

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Prosperity

As prosperity is promoted, thinking is demoted. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Prosperity

Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

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Prosperity

We face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

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Prosperity

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations. – Edmund Burke

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Nature

You arent learning anything when youre talking. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Learning

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Marks happier. Im sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who Ive offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness. – Scott Stapp

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Forgiveness

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. – Irvin S. Cobb

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