[We are] persuaded to spend ...

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don\'t have on things we don\'t need to create impressions that won\'t last on people we don\'t care about.
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
 Tim Jackson

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.
 Tim Jackson
Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.
 Tim Jackson
If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.
 Tim Jackson