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

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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they dont have time to get into mischief. – Bill Vaughan

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Smoking
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a mans lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college. – Bill Vaughan

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

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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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Books

He who pays the piper calls the tune. – Proverb

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power

Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. – Patañjali

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Adversity

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed. – Rachael Ray

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Family