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• Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

  Thomas McEvilley

  Plato, Eye, Soul

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• If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

  Margaret Halsey

  Education, Mean, College

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• The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Europe, Fans, World

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• Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Bridges, Focus, Needs

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

  Mason Cooley

  Excess, Causes, Diarrhea

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• The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

  Samuel Parr

  Triumph, Excess, Reason

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• The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Luxury, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Devil, Obedience, Holy

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• I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Taken, Healthy

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• Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

  Noam Chomsky

  Suicide, Europe, Way

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific. Junk economics denies the role of debt and denies the fact that the economic system we have now is dysfunctional.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Real, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.

  Jude Wanniski

  Years, Ideas, Roots

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• We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

  Bill Gross

  Long, May, Abundance

  "BILL GROSS: 'We Are Witnessing The Death Of Abundance'" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 01, 2012.

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• As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Recovery, Past

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• I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christmas, Thinking, Moral

  "'Tis the Season To Be Incredulous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. December 15, 2008.

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• We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Pride, World

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• You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

  Moliere

  Essence, People, Want

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.44, Penguin

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• A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

  Rose Macaulay

  Freedom, Hot, Baths

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.101, A&C Black

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• If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

  Len McCluskey

  Believe, Shade, Next

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• A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic.

  Ray Dalio

  Beautiful, Balance, Three

  "RAY DALIO: America Is Executing A 'Beautiful Deleveraging'" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. May 19, 2012.

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• The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

  Mary McCarthy

  Simplicity, Tourists, Lines

  Mary McCarthy (1959). “The stones of Florence”

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• You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

  Jean Racine

  Passion, Tragedy, Literature

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• The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

  Arnaud Montebourg

  Government, Economic, Crisis

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• Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

  Bill Gross

  Country, Writing, Growth

  "Eurozone crisis live: Brussels hints at austerity rethink as opposition mounts - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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