"Too much of what led up to the……" — Richard Florida

Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old… - Richard Florida

"Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term."

— Richard Florida

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me… — Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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