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Quote by Erich Fromm
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is

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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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm

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Greed
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

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Adversity
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

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Art
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Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism. – David Edwards

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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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Consumerism

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. – Francis H. Bradley

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Consumerism

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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Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. – Buddha

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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. – Steve Allen

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I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we havent seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross cause shes an icon. Im salivating to do that. – Taraji P. Henson

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