Quote by J.B. Priestley
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the fut

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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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. – Aldous Huxley, Island

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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

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

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

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I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. – Ron Kind

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. – Thomas Fuller

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