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

Other quotes by Bill Vaughan

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. – Bill Vaughan

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History
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Youth is when youre allowed to stay up late on New Years Eve. Middle age is when youre forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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Age
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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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Other Quotes from
Prosperity
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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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin

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Prosperity

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. – E.F. Schumacher

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Prosperity

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. – Goethe

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Prosperity

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The test and the use of mans education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. – Jacques Barzun

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Education

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I dont notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. – Vivienne Westwood

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Age

I learned about the markets power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100. – Jack Kemp

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power

Find a need and fill it. – Ruth Stafford Peale

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Sweetest Day