"In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largelyâ€”beyond some point, almost entirelyâ€”on the things that others choose to buy."

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Source : Robert H. Frank (2001). “Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy In An Era of Excess”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Robert H. Frank

#Needs Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.”
“I sucked blood from one of my best friends”
“I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.”
“I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.”
“Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right”
“By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite”
“Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.”

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