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• The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury's and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They're the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs!

  Michael O'Leary

  Class, Environmental, Nuclear

  "Michael O'Leary's 33 daftest quotes" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

  Milton Friedman

  Technique, Politics, Voters

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1985). “Tyranny of the status quo”

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• Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

  John H. Vandenberg

  Fall, Pits, Financial

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• There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Credit, Financial, Worthwhile

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• Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Serious, Journalism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

  Kyle Bass

  Simple, Political, Gold

  BBC HARDTalk Interview, November 15, 2011.

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• ...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.

  John D. Voelker

  Rivers, Lakes, Average

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts.

  Henry Waxman

  Lying, Past, Iraq

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don't resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate, Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to de-preciate.

  Darryl Anka

  Positive, Reality, Law Of Attraction

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• We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Reality, Men, Equal Pay

  "Gender Equality Is a Myth!" By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.

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• Sometimes if somebody you feel you need... the whole universe tells you that you have to have her, you start watching her favorite TV shows all night, you start buying her the things she needs, you start drinking her drinks, you start smoking her bad cigarettes, you start picking up her nuances in her voice, you sleep in safe sometimes the most dangerous thing... this is called Mojo Pin.

  Jeff Buckley

  Drinking, Sleep, Night

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• It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

  Anuj

  Creating, Easy, Difficult

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• Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.

  James Krenov

  Life, Beautiful, Children

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• I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

  Tom Jones

  Weakness, Watches

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• Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

  Carl Karcher

  Successful, People, Community

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• You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.

  Michael Bassey

  Clothes, Asking, Way

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• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

  Cornel West

  Pleasure, Selling, Driven

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

  Steve Jobs

  Ridiculous, Ends

  "10 great quotes from Steve Jobs" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2016.

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• The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

  Charlie Munger

  Waiting, Selling, Bigs

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• I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Strong, Addiction, Stripes

  "Do You Sometimes Mispronounce Designer Names? This TV Star Does and Totally Owns It". Interview with Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 29, 2014.

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• Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, People, Giving

  "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

  Michael Pollan

  Skills, People, Example

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Book, Reading

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring through the booklet of lyrics and liner notes. The digital age has removed us from the tactile experience of what it meant to listen to an album.

  Steve Weinstein

  Player, Cds, Age

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• Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Feel Better, People

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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