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Quote by Alan Gregg
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in sur

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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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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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. – Confucius

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

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Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923

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