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• There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the
  toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your
  eye by the checkout: corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Shine On, Average

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.31, Penguin

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• The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Generations, Born

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especially poor minorities, are viewed as predators, a threat to corporate governance, and are treated as disposable populations.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Age, Population

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Fun, Love Is, Interesting

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

  will.i.am

  Buttons, Would Be, Looks

  Source: thesource.com

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• If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

  Karl Marx

  Capitalist, Labourers, Ifs

  Source: thecorporateasylum.com

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• I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.

  Van Jones

  Country, Hero, Party

  Source: pen.org

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• I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

  Van Jones

  White, People, Say Anything

  Source: pen.org

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• For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.

  Nina Turner

  Home, Winning, Class

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The dramatically different manner in which we, as a nation, responded to the crisis presented by drunk driving and the crisis caused by the emergence of crack cocaine speaks volumes about who we value, and who we view as disposable.

  Michelle Alexander

  Views, Drunk, Different

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged from the body politic - and who is not. Drunk drivers are predominately white and male.

  Michelle Alexander

  White, Drunk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage with that if you're writing about the modern world. You've also got all these pop references that you feel obligated to make. They're just part of the bricolage of the whole thing, whether or not these are actually significant elements themselves.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, People, Elements

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone.

  Annie Leonard

  Writing, Heart, Years

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• Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Adventure, Insecure

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• Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable.

  David Bowie

  People, Use, Today

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.

  Mos Def

  Mean, Artist, Numbers

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Opportunity, White, Diversity

  "Fiction’s Big, White Problem" by Jennifer Armintrout, jennytrout.com. March 18, 2014.

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• I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.

  Robert Sikoryak

  Children, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

  Isaac Hayes

  Kids, Remember You, Remembers You

  "New Inductees Take Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Into the Punk Era" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 19, 2002.

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• I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

  Li Bingbing

  Years, Environmental, Events

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• And with this show we're trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called "Ghost Busters Busters". Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it's silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that.

  B. J. Porter

  Stupid, Silly, Years

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  Viola Davis

  Kids, Eye, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable....When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Jobs, Fighting, Important

  "Scarlett Johansson's in Love! (but not with this guy)". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.glamour.com. September 28, 2009.

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• Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

  John Malkovich

  Art, Wall, Smell

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  John Howard

  Political, Truth Is, Absolute Truth

  ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.

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