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Adriano Tilgher
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.
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Adriano Tilgher
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.
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Author Unknown
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
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Edward Abbey
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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Elwyn Brooks White
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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Eric Hoffer
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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John Berger
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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Kin Hubbard
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
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Mad Magazine
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
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Pam Shaw
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.
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Paul Heyne
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
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