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“What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.”

Source: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

“Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."”

Humans Humor Funny Form Objects Food Humorous Starting Entertainment Flight Broads Categories Consumption Airline Minerals Air Travel Airline Food

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.”

World Has Beens Stills States Enough Funny America Universe Nations United United States Humorous Despite Cards Decline Consumption Glances Parallels Great Nations Parallel Universe

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.”

Men Ends Together Dies Wise Praying Disease Died Come Up Graves Perceive Consumption Captains Bowels Pox

Book:'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'

Source: 'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'

“...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one.”

Way Should Believe Political Life Is Politics Energy Goal President Protect Blessed Consumption President Bush High Energy American Way Of Life Energy Consumption

Author:Ari Fleischer

“It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.”

Energy Groups Possession Leisure Consumption Privileged Acquisition Zest Pristine

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.”

Men World Art Used Waiting Consciousness Objects Art Is Productions New World Consumption Discarded

Author:Eugenio Montale

“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”

“Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.”

Trouble Healthy Scene Elements Luxury Extras Expensive Feds Heels Consumption Practicality Stilettos Stiletto Heels

Author:Evan Davis

“My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.”

Has Beens Hands Views Approach Blessed Contrary Disorder Consumption Symptoms Delighted Great Change

Book:Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.”

Pops Consumption Showers

Author:Kathleen Battle

“Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.”

Problem Growth Balance Trade Oil Consumption Oil Consumption

Author:Sherwood Boehlert

“So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.”

Action Choices Clear Congress Oil Consumers Concrete Consumption Legislation Reducing Symbolic Gasoline Fiddle Oil Consumption

Author:Sherwood Boehlert

“The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.”

“Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.”

“I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Loss Talking Products Huge Internet News Newspapers Consumption Shifting

Author:Michael Connelly

“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.”

Men World Matter Decision Mistake Company Car Products Huge Majors Female Consumers Makers Categories Consumption Cosmetics Decision Makers

Author:Andrea Jung