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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

Other quotes by Bill Vaughan

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughan

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Poverty
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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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Prosperity
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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. – Samuel Johnson

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Prosperity

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. – La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665

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Prosperity

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, “Let no more riches enter!” – Aeschylus

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Prosperity

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. – Alan Gregg

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Prosperity

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Ive developed into quite a swan. Im one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. – Rufus Wainwright

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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. – Dante Alighieri

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Perfection

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. – Yo-Yo Ma

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Trust

The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. – Lama Willa Miller

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Weather