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The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it wi

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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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. – Johann von Goethe

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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

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