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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or impor

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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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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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. – Thomas Carlyle

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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. – E. M. Forster

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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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