Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but store up ...for yourselves treasures in heaven...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in t...he machinery of civilised life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its... own special columns in the newspapers--and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some people say the business about the jolly fat person is a myth, that all of us chubbies are neurotic, sick, sad people. I disag...ree. Fat people may not be chortling all day long, but they're a hell of a lot nicer than the wizened and shriveled. Thin people turn surly, mean and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot fudge sundae for easing tension. Thin people don't like gooey soft things because they themselves are neither gooey nor soft. They are crunchy and dull, like carrots. They go straight to the heart of the matter while fat people let things stay all blurry and hazy and vague, they way things actually are. Thin people want to face the truth. Fat people know there is no truth.... Thin people believe in logic. Fat people see all sides. The sides fat people see are rounded blobs, usually gray, always nebulous and truly not worth worrying about. But the thin person persists. "If you consume more calories than you burn," says one of my thin friends, "you will gain weight. It's that simple." Fat people always grin when they hear that. They know better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See where she comes, and smell how all the street, Breathes vineyards and pomegranates: oh, how sweet!... As a fired altar is each stone, Perspiring pounded cinnamon. The phoenix-nest, Built up of odours, burneth in her breast. Who therein would not consume His soul to ash-heaps in that rich perfume,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow....... The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles?... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that ha...s troubled men for millennia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can thin...k about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us--dollars and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the ...other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »