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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Bad Bad People Consumption Cuts Eat Further Get Only People Pit Point Resist Some Things Want

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In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Artistic City Consumption Great Known New New York Place Production Slowly York 1970S

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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Advertising Also Art Consumption Corporate Frankenstein Mass Reinforce System Undermine While

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Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

~Elon Musk

Topics: About Consumption Energy Helping Manner Need Obviously Production Solve Sustainable Tesla You

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Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Almost Cannes Consumption Detrimental Effects Fast-Food Festival Health Linked Perspective Political

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Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.

~Emily Levine

Topics: Above According Compete Consume Consumption Each Else Growth Here How How Much Larger Most Much Obesity Other Patriotism Problem See Society Status Symptom Who You I See

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One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

~Emily Oster

Topics: Big Consumption Economic Engage Lot People Should Theory

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Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Art Consciousness Consumption Discarded Even Everything Freeing Himself His Man New New World Objects Own Production Succeeded Used Waiting Which While Will World

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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

~Evan Dando

Topics: Attaining Bands Consumption Dig Even History Mass

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Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

~Evan Davis

Topics: About Consumption Element Expensive Extra Fed Healthy Heated Heels Inevitably Luxury Once Our Scene Testify Trouble Wear Who Women

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