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

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As prosperity is promoted, thinking is demoted. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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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