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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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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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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. – Erich Fromm

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

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Consumerism

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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Consumerism

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. – Frank A. Clark

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Consumerism

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

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Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership. – Peter Pace

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. – John Barrymore

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But in the back of my mind Ive always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if its done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. – Christopher Nolan

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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. – Theodore Bikel

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