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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. – Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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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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