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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

  Robert Lembke

  Littles, Way, Pleasure

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• The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

  Agnes Repplier

  Heart, One Direction, Dear

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Loss, Night, Important

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Quilts, Memories, Flower

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

  Hetty Green

  Shrewdness, Dear, Persistent

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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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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Sunday, Fleas, Gals

  "Tribeca Film Festival Cast Interview: Beware! The Gonzo". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

  Erin Wasson

  Real, Interesting, Style

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• It was part of a financial situation. I could only afford records in thrift stores. Then you could find wonderful things, but now everything is a collectible. I like the recycling idea --using the stuff that people don't want anymore, and make new music out of it. There was an element of looking back and listening to your parents' records and doing something with that stuff. Sort of acknowledging the past while rejecting it at the same time.

  Christian Marclay

  Past, Ideas, People

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• If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.

  Dave Ramsey

  Perseverance, Integrity, Hard Work

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• Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mean, Men, Self

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• Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

  Edmund Burke

  Saving, Virtue, Economy

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59

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• If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Ideas, People, Effort

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