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

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