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• When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Planet, Consumption

• You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fairly, Consumption

• I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means ‘low-carbon consumption.’ This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

  Nicholas Stern

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  Tags in Electricity, Consumption

• I’m not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

  James Spader

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Promoting, Consumption

• A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Article, Consumption

• And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

  Tim Holden

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  Tags in Consumption, American

• The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Consumption, Alcoholic

• As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

  Reince Priebus

  Topics in America, Business, Opportunity

  Tags in Relationships, Consumption

• 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

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  Tags in Economics, Consumption, Consumer

• Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

  Ellen Willis

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  Tags in Mass, Consumption, System

• In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

  Raoul Vaneigem

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  Tags in Consumption, Democratic

• Even the bands I dig don’t have a history of attaining mass consumption.

  Evan Dando

  Topics in History

  Tags in Band, Mass, Consumption

• Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

  William Shenstone

  Tags in Consumption, Flattering

• Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

  John Baldacci

  Tags in Consumption