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The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. – Adriano Tilgher

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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. – Vernon Howard

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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