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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption. — David Ricardo

It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions. — Nicholas Carr

Other studies support this result, showing that doubling the size of a container of snack food increases consumption by 30 to 45 percent.15 I — Leonard Mlodinow

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles. — Tim Holden

Don't tax my income, tax my consumption. — Bill Gates

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. — Maurice Strong

Violent consumption demands violent production. — Bryant McGill

Probably she died. Consumption. Fever. Mountain lion. I don't know. — Nova Ren Suma

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. — Jock Sturges

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun. — Charles Eisenstein

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. — Susan George

When we buy junk, we become junk. — Bryant McGill

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption. — Walker Percy

The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium. — Bernardo Houssay

If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it. — Marilyn Manson

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. — James Dale Davidson

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption. — Peter Saville

Happiness does not come from consumption of things. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman

Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens. — Dennis Garvin

The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior. — Jay Baer

In one study of ten countries,14 a higher consumption of calcium was associated with a higher - not lower - risk of bone fracture (Chart 10.3 — T. Colin Campbell

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life. — Edward T. Welch

For spirits like ours, freedom is consumption, transportation on beams of sun — Terrence Alonzo Craft

Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose! — George Bernard Shaw

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device. — Jason Calacanis

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. — Doug Larson

Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption. — Jeanette Winterson

Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made. — Lou Jiwei

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate. — James Black

Gas consumption is growing everywhere. — Vagit Alekperov

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder . — Ilana Mercer

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves

Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided. — Najib Razak

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop. — Freddie Mercury

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. — Mohamed El-Erian

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems. — Corey Feldman

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption. — William Stanley Jevons

electricity consumption, rail cargo and bank loans. — Matthew Crabbe

Mindful consumption is the way out of our difficulties, not just our personal difficulties, but also the way out of war, poverty, and climate crisis. — Thich Nhat Hanh

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. — Robert Greene

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. — Andy Stanley

BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure. — Norbert Reithofer

He looked like how Victorian Romantic poets looked just before the consumption and drug abuse really started to cut it. — Terry Pratchett

Enough solar energy hits the Earth's surface in about an hour to equal a year's worth of worldwide energy consumption from all sources put together.20 — Ashlee Vance

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption. — Alan Goodare

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that's not for male consumption. — Erykah Badu

The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories. — Leslie Bradshaw

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's — Aldous Huxley

Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man. — Russell Kirk

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding

A lot of evidence indicates that we are destroying the foundations of human prosperity in an orgy of reckless consumption. — Yuval Noah Harari

Men read either the novels it is possible to respect, or detective stories. But their consumption of detective stories is terrific. — George Orwell

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. — Shoshana Zuboff

Consumption never creates wealth. — Kurt Richebacher

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E.F. Schumacher

I checked my appearance, to make sure I was fit for public consumption. — Lee Child

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. — Barbara W. Tuchman

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery. — Hannah Arendt

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. — Clive Thompson

No sausage? he asked.
Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record. — Maureen Johnson

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich

Their excessive consumption of fiction was an essential distraction from their broken home. — Michael Ebner

The process of consumption ... is the final act in the economic drama — Kenneth E. Boulding

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news. — Norman Foster

Overconsumption is a concern for people who've made it to regular consumption. I — Linda Tirado

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal. — Gene Baur

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide. — Herman E. Daly

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett

Whenever we have more than we need, our natural assumption will be that it's for our own consumption. — Andy Stanley

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption. — Mike Vallely

In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption. — Ben Bernanke

Expensive clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather. — Anne Fadiman

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world. — John Robbins

conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us. — Jacob Lund Fisker

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. — Robert Nelson

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we're a lawyer, an artist or a police officer. — Robert Wringham

Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management. — Mark Sisson

Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption. — Susan Sontag

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. — Steve Wynn

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. — Evan Dando

All Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication — Allen Ginsberg

We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption. — John Sulston

Pornography is the consumption of sexual poison that becomes part of the fabric of the mind. — William M. Struthers

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. — Barney Oliver

The promoters of the global economy ... see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. — Wendell Berry

Consumption of salmon is growing at 6 percent to 7 percent a year, outpacing the 3 percent rate of production. — Anonymous

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings. — Donald Hall

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers ... — Mike Huckabee

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith? ... — Thomas Malthus