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Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic fra

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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I dont care how famous a guitarist is, he aint learned everything. Theres always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he aint found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck. – David Edwards

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The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. Its a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you. – David Edwards

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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Guy Debord

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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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I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. – Adriano Tilgher

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

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