Consumerism Quote by John Powell

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.” quote by John Powell — Download Open image

““To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.””

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There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go…

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God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but…

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He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

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You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights…

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A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

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“It’s a shameful indictment of the shabby way we live nowadays, but we have to face the fact that most of you won’t have…

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Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

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It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves.…

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You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

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“But why should a flute make a sound which is smoother and less complex than that of a violin or oboe? To answer this question we have to think about musical instruments as machines which produce notes. All these machines are designed to produce repeating ripple patterns of pressure in the air and they all do this in different ways.…

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

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“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”

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I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

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America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish…

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“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they…

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“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the typographer in search of special treatment.In earlier days it was kings and deities whose agents demanded that their names be written in a larger size or set in a specially ornate typeface; not it is business…

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One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have…

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