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We face the question whether a still higher

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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Pearls around the neck – stones upon the heart. – Hanan J. Ayalti, Yiddish Proverbs, 1949

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Prosperity

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

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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

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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The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. – Judy Blume

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Fear

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you. – Abraham–Hicks

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Hate

I am so blessed. Ive been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what Gods got in store for you. – Paula Deen

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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. – George Burns

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Retirement