Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. – Benjamin Franklin
When political and business leaders tell the public – any public – We dont trust you to make the right decision – they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. – Preston Manning
