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• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Style, Degrees

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Thinking, Demand

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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• The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

  Peter Garrett

  Play, People, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

  Todd Gitlin

  Media, Psychics, Way To Live

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• Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Stars, Cost

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• Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Gone, Sides

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• The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Country, Latin, America

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• The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

  Daniel Pennac

  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

  Michael Polanyi

  Community, Body, Way

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• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Issues, Gold

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

  Fred Seibert

  Marketing, Saws, Entertainment

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Humanity

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• The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Finite Number, Numbers, Desire

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• Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement - people are withdrawing to shape and support more localised forms of organisation and power. To the extent that it's part of that civilised and localising world, the same is true of the U.S.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Meaningful, Army, People

  "The growth of local power is a bright spot in seven bleak years of Bush" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2007.

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• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

  Eamon de Valera

  Country, Government, Unemployment

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• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

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• Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

  Charles C. Mann

  Party, Two, Textbooks

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• Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Rights, Benefits, Use

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

  Walter Mosley

  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• Access to goods, services & talent triumphs over ownership

  Lisa Gansky

  Triumph, Talent, Ownership

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• The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.

  Epicharmus of Kos

  Giving, Cost, Sells

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• If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.

  Bob Torres

  Real, Believe, Roots

  Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press

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• Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Needs, Internet, Customers

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• As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

  Herman Gorter

  Mean, Land, Pieces

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