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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Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. – Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

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

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

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