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

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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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Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. – Voltaire

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Were not uncomfortable with it, and weve already been through enough of the music business where Im not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – were already past saving, you know what I mean? Its too late for us. – Jerry Garcia

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