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Consumption Quotes
On buying, using, and wearing out.
This collection uses "consumption" in several distinct ways: booming consumer spending, everyday diet and fibre intake, rising gas usage, and even the old poetic term once used for a wasting lung disease. It pairs well with our Big quotes on scale and growth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
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We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
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In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
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