"Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet."

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Source : Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books

Ronald J. Sider

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“A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.”
“I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.”
“What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...”

Source : "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.
“Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85 to 88 percent male, and that is part of why investing for women they tell us feels unapproachable because they don't see people who look like them.”

Source : "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.
“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”
“With a good editor you find yourself shaping as you talk and they will ask a couple of questions that open new things. Some are good at line editing too, but there's this other, less visible talent.”
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
“We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.”

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