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“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.”

Jobs Water Work Perfect Pressure Presses Buttons Pumps Perfect Job

Author:Tori Amos

“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”

Writing Wells Kind Important Waiting Water Amount Important Things Dry Pumps Refills

Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.”

Water Common Folks Common Sense Pumps

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.”

Water Speech Flow Raises Lakes Back Again Pumps Great Lakes

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.”

“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

World Running Water Simple Poor Demand India Blame Farmers Consumerism Pumps Overconsumption Gasoline Gallons

Author:Richard J. Foster