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• I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Acting, Driven

  "Verdict on a Superstar". John Skow, Time Magazine, December 6, 1982.

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• Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

  Karl Marx

  Technology, Class, House

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• Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Opportunity, Numbers

  "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World". Book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, March 2006.

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• The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Hints, May, Matter

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.

  Pythagoras

  Gratitude, Rich

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• Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Community, Faithful

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• Let's gear our advertising to sell goods, but let's recognize also that advertising has a broad social responsibility.

  Leo Burnett

  Responsibility, Gears, Advertising

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• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Beauty, Children, Men

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Society, Quality

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• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

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• I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.

  Alexander McQueen

  Believe, Mean, Identity

  "McQueen has designs on Africa for fall/winter 2000", www.cnn.com. May 15, 2000.

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• From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.

  Charles Rangel

  Views, Agriculture, America

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• In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Jealousy, Art, Hatred

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

  Jack Smith

  Play, Would Be, Retail

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• If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Zero, Supposing That, May

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.199, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fashion, Mean, Goal

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  Lewis Mumford

  Buttons, Waking Life, Tasks

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inheritance, Belief, Creeds

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who, upon the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents which they did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not got.

  Gilbert Harding

  People, Judging, Needs

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• We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Want, Produce

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Community, Atmosphere, Opulence

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

  Heinrich Heine

  Iron, World, Should

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.86

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• I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Growing Up, Humble, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.

  Ron Paul

  Wells, Marketplace

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Luxury, Acting

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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