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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

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. – Bill Vaughan

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Children
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. – Bill Vaughan

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Business
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit — and parking as close to the stadium as possible. – Bill Vaughan

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Prosperity
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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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Men can bear all things except good days. – Dutch Proverb [Quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs comprisin

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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

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. – Friedrich Holderlin

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Prosperity

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Hmmm, how to “can a day?” You know, those days that seem just perfect you want access to them whenever the need arises. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. – Ivor Novello

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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

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As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bushs blatant disregard for science. – Louise Slaughter

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