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• To lose sensibility, to see what one sees,
  As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift,
  To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone,
  As if the paradise of meaning ceased
  To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

  Lara Spencer

  Pieces, Charity, Causes

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• I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Shopping, Teens, Stores

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• I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.

  Ezra Miller

  New York, Stars, Jewels

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• I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.

  Victoria Legrand

  Fashion, People, Insane

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• Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Errors, Promise

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• Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Majority, Details, Rich

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• What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.

  Rick Perry

  Growing Up, Hard Work, Way

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Prosperity, Application

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• Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  Isabella Beeton

  Income, Waste, Degenerates

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• Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Brother, Secret, Vices

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• I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

  Kirsten Vangsness

  Girl, Shopping, Dresses

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• The instances that second marriage move
  Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Moving, Instance

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan

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• People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  People, Pay, Way

  Thomas Nixon Carver (1926). “The Present Economic Revolution in the United States”

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• The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

  Norman Thomas

  Dumb, Trying, Doctrine

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• Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.

  Peter George Peterson

  Life, Children, Differences

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• Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Education, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Safety, Genuine

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• It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Spring, Mistake

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.89, Da Capo Press

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• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  Zoey Deutch

  Mom, Passion, Hunting

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• I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Expression, Wish, Financial

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• Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Knitting, Satisfaction

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• We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

  Robert A. Kotick

  Fun, Real, Playing Games

  "Bobby Kotick Wants to Take the Fun Out of Making Games" by Andy Chalk, www.escapistmagazine.com. September 15, 2009.

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• The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Money, Believe, Gold

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• When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

  Miranda July

  Littles, Normal, Bedroom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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