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“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

“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?”

Ifs World Choices Felt Mankind Waste Resources Substance Exhausted Finite Consuming Prospects Multiplying Yeast Brewers Vat

Author:Farley Mowat

“The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not very active and empty of nutrients or it could be a toxic, polluted substance. That's what interests me as an environmentalist, because I think we should only produce the purest, finest things. Then there would be no toxic side effects. There would be no wastes, because everything would be used responsibly.”

Thinking Should Would Be Used Sides Interest Effects Produce Pure Waste Empty Active Tea Substance Chemistry Toxic Finest Environmentalist Side Effects Nutrients

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.”

Real Force Struggle Clear Week Style Identity Waste Substance Gravity Submit Rockets Prehistoric

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.”

Different Waste Cat Okay Essence Ghost Substance Milk Consumed

Book:Lips Touch: Three Times

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.”

Has Beens Stills Done Faces Courses Fine Waste Skins Substance Features Dry Wrinkles Cracked

Book:The Lover

Source: The Lover

“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”

Men Feels Firsts Looks Stills Next Grows Pleasure Comfort Waste Mad Luxury Substance Utility Decadence

Book:The New Science of Giambattista Vico

Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico