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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself o

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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.

What has always made a hell on earth has been tha

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What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

The human race has had long experience and a fine

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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.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human p

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Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Everything in the world may be endured except con

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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs bu

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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Ba

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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.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness an

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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

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