“Money can buy you social status, a luxurious bed in a prestigious hospital, and more time with your family when you got sick. Who doesn't want that?”
Source: How to Save Money, Create More Income, & Live a Happier Life: Simple ways how to get back on track in your finances
“Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Sometimes money finds its own expression,” Jake said. “Like water flowing through a canyon, only the walls are laws and regulations. It follows the path of least resistance and leaves the landscape altered behind it.”
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“Duke: How is a planet to become an Eden without money?
Kynes: What is money if it won't buy the services you need?”
Source: DUNE
“Things you can't buy are more valuable than money.”
“As long as you have enough money, the rules of fair play don't matter.”
“Vanity about physical appearance is an equal-opportunity vice; the males just target different physical traits for amplification and display using different products.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Consumerism has become our most potent ideology because it so contemptuously dismisses our natual human modes of trait display, and it keeps us too busy -working, shopping. and product displaying- to remember what we can signal without all the products.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“Even in the twenty-first century, we still can't buy sane parents, successful siblings, or sensible children. We can't even buy decent replacements for biological adaptations that go wrong -artificial eyes, brains, hands, or wombs. Our bodily organs are the most value-dense items that we can call our own. They are beyond price, but we take them for granted until we lose them through accident or age.”
Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“I went out to the hazel wood
because a fire was in my head
cut and peeled a hazel wand
and hooked a berry to a thread
and when white moths were on the wing
and moth-like stars were flickering out
I dropped the berry in a stream,
and caught a little silver trout....
(Song of Wandering Aengus)”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats