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From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
by Kenzaburo Oe (Writer, Japanese , born in 1935) keywords: another, arising, asia, both, consumption, expanding, going, incorporated, into, japan, large, new, now, point, potential, power, production, prosperity, seems, situation, view , which Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
by Manuel Puig (Author, Argentinian , born in 1932) keywords: consumption, disposable, fine, growing, most, movies, quick, saw, still, survived, totally, up, viewed, were , years A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
by Richard Reeves (Writer , American) keywords: children, cleaned, consumption, dirty, history, innocents, just, lot, other, politics , up A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: articles, change, conception, consumption, currency, daily, exchangeable, experience, fraud, reducible, small , symbol Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.
by Allyson Schwartz (Politician, American , born in 1948) keywords: addition, anwr, bring, consumption, enough, estimated, experts, government, industry, itself, market, months, oil, only, provide, reserves, six, take, would , years Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.
by John Shadegg (Politician, American , born in 1949) keywords: chinese, consumption, demand, driven, economies, even, force, fuel, global, growing, growth, higher, however, increase, indian, largely, next, over, percent, prices, projected, rapidly, will , years Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) keywords: attended, consumer, consumption, end, far, interest, may, necessary, only, ought, producer, production, promoting, purpose , sole Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
by Catherine Helen Spence (Author, Australian , born in 1825) keywords: any, australia, beyond, climate, coming, consumption, ever, family, had, helped, her, life, middle, mother, must, probably, prolonged , tendency A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
by Maurice Strong (Businessman, Canadian , born in 1929) keywords: consumption, damaging, environmental, geared, less, lifestyles, necessary, patterns, shift , toward That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
by Jock Sturges (Photographer, American , born in 1947) keywords: between, consumption, dichotomy, intent, making, occasion, practice, public, uneasy , work The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
by Robert Trout (Journalist, American , born in 1909) keywords: both, characteristics, consumption, demographic, depends, development, intellect, level, members, minimal, physical, potential, productivity, society , standard Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
by Raoul Vaneigem (Philosopher, Belgian , born in 1934) keywords: balance, consumption, daily, economic, governed, insults, life, out, production, system, tends , which In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
by Raoul Vaneigem (Philosopher, Belgian , born in 1934) keywords: before, citizen, consumption, democratic, equality, fraternity, freedom, king, kingdom, monarchy , through The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
by Thorstein Veblen (Economist, American , born in 1857) keywords: any, basis, community, conspicuous, consumption, gaining, good, goods, highly, industrial, leisure, means, name, organized, pecuniary, repute, rests, retaining, showing, strength, ultimately , which Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
by Ellen Willis (Writer, American , born in 1941) keywords: advertising, also, art, consumption, corporate, frankenstein, mass, reinforce, system, undermine , while
