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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves
Speaker: Edwin Way TealPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves
It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.