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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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He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. – Author Unknown

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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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