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“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.”

Men Lying Differences Waste Chiefs Excess Sober Subjective Brutes Extravagance Propensity Prunes

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.”

Ifs Men Use Would Be Economy Creative Genius Waste Poetic Thrift Extravagance Dustbin Really Romantic

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.”

Made Country Results Waste Economics Trade Notion Excuse Spending Saving Substance Decrease Extravagance Spendthrift

Book:Political Economy for Beginners

Source: Political Economy for Beginners

“Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.”

Humans Hard Humanity Wealth Industry Waste Toil Extravagance Disloyalty

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”

Humans Country Order Social Rich Waste Resources Investing Unemployment Human Resources Menace Extravagance Social Order Demoralization

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3

“I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.”

Waste Adore Extravagance

Author:Aaron Copland

“Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.”

Men Mind Mean Self Form Values Fool Waste Crisis Mere Proof Saving Restraint Savings Saving Money Thrift Extravagance Self Restraint Muddle

Author:Rudyard Kipling