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

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. – Bill Vaughan

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

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Prosperity

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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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

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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Prosperity

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Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you whats going to work for you. – Star Jones

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. – Hannah Arendt

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