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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
Noam Chomsky
You
Own
Control
Distracted
Consumption
Force
Cannot
Your
Population
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. Schumacher
World
Finite
Consumption
Material
Impossibility
Infinite
Growth
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith
Ought
Sole
Promoting
Only
Purpose
Consumer
Consumption
Attended
End
May
Interest
Far
Producer
Production
Necessary
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Today
Situation
Our
Worries
Earth
Way
Ourselves
Has-Been
Consume
Consumption
Been
Forget
Anxieties
Created
Production
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
Jerry Brown
Entertainment
Control
Politicians
Thinking
Corporations
Destroying
Outburst
Laying
Division
Consumption
Pattern
Racial
Planet
Multinational
Media
Foundation
Violent
The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.
Che Guevara
Hurt
Guerrilla
Prohibited
Morale
Both
Troops
Drinks
Consumption
Hours
Bed
Go
Up
Fixed
Get
Social
Required
Should
Fighters
Games
Function
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy Carter
Too
Worship
Tend
Self
Consumption
Indulgence
Us
Many
Now
Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.
Rachel Nichols
Day
Thanksgiving
Before
Everyone
Would
Would-Be
Eat
About
Gym
More
Through
Consumption
True
Most
Talk
Period
Return
Decide
Holidays
January
Us
Lets
Specifically
Early
Night
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen
Good
Strength
Community
Conspicuous
Rests
Retaining
Consumption
Highly
Name
Goods
Industrial
Ultimately
Any
Leisure
Which
Gaining
Repute
Means
Organized
Showing
Basis
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
Aunjanue Ellis
Grief
People
Too Many People
Lost
Too
Air
Earth
Worse
Some
Consumption
Still
Dearly
Left
Same
Loved
Breathing
Many
Comparable
Here
Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
Jack Ma
Buy
People
Down
Online
Cheaper
Consumption
Economy
Look
Because
Still
Up
Goes
Going
Things
There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.
Lou Jiwei
Too Much
Three
Too
Sectors
Sluggish
Main
Investment
Consumption
Demand
Economy
Global
Limited
Pillars
Which
China
Much
Export
Many
Second
Third
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.
Paul Hawken
Needs
People
World
Matter
Economics
Matters
Proper
Proper Study
Consumption
Study
House
Still
Green
Really
Product
Fulfilment
Aspirations
Even
Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Smoking
Alcohol
Once
Sun
Obesity
About
Excessive
Consumption
Like
Accelerate
Done
Influence
Process
Much
Your
Avoid
Aging
Exposure
Things
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.
Tom Brokaw
Culture
Financial
Too Much
Become
Lost
Greed
Society
Too
Our
Way
Excess
Allowed
Absorb
Consumption
Became
Pillars
Moderation
Much
Twin
Utterly
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
Happiness
Life
Increased
Increases
Other
Recipes
Dignified
Ways
Finding
Consumption
Than
Human
Human Happiness
Meaningful
Production
Satisfaction
Gratifying
Enjoyment
Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.
Ahmed Zewail
Natural
Half
Energy
Action
Other
Those
Administration
Able
Taboo
He
Consumption
Taking
Over
Announced
Goods
His
Subsidies
Egyptians
Bread
After
Energy Consumption
Natural Gas
Century
Cuts
Elected
Mubarak
Convince
Lowered
Gas
Necessary
I think unadulterated products and smaller portion sizes mean consumption of less food overall. Portion is everything. The first time I bought a scoop of ice cream in Paris, they weighed the ice cream on a scale before putting it on the cone. It was so small, it fell into the cone as she handed it to me.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Time
Food
Me
First
Before
Think
Everything
Scale
Small
Paris
Weighed
Consumption
Smaller
Bought
Putting
Overall
Fell
She
First Time
Scoop
Handed
Cone
Sizes
Ice
Ice Cream
Mean
Cream
Less
Products
Portion
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.
Alex Steffen
Change
Worth
Important
Building
Important Things
Energy
Our
Those
Cities
Impacts
About
Consumption
Sharing
Goods
Most
Talking
Buildings
How
Priority
Provide
Green
The Most Important
Etc
Patterns
Transit
Use
Choose
Transportation
Actions
Things
Fraction
Need
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
Alfred Marshall
Negative
Consumption
May
Regarded
Production
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.
Allyson Schwartz
Government
Enough
Addition
Market
Months
Would
Only
Take
Consumption
Industry
Provide
Years
Itself
ANWR
Six
Oil
Oil Industry
Estimated
Experts
Reserves
Bring
Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.
Andrea Jung
Woman
Mistake
Women
World
Matter
Decision
Car
Men
Power
Purchases
Cosmetics
More
Consumers
Consumption
Leading
Clearly
Categories
Major
Maker
Female
Making
Huge
Women Are
Than
Any
Just
Whether
Far
Products
Company
Even
The vast majority of Muslims view the consumption of alcohol or pork as deeply haram.
Andy Ngo
Alcohol
Muslims
Vast
Vast Majority
Consumption
Majority
View
Pork
Deeply
Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.
Arancha Gonzalez
Day
Every Day
People
Matter
Job
Creation
Every
Medium-Sized
Meet
Markets
Job Creation
Boost
Immensely
Enterprises
Small
Consumption
Head
Trade
Improving
Sustainable
Which
Centre
Them
Production
Help
International
Connecting
Works
International Trade
Growth
Competitiveness
In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.
Arancha Gonzalez
Rose
Back
Latest
High
Crop
Cash
Ten
Ten Years
Prices
Had
Consumption
Leading
Demand
Principally
Household
Cultivated
Been
Years
Sell
Up
Grain
Grew
Incentive
Farmers
International
Plateau
Skyrocketing
Nearly
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Arthur Erickson
Alone
Consumption
Mass
Industry
Line
Goal
Dominated
North
North America
America
Production
Standardization
Assembly
Assembly Line
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