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• For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Makeup, Years, Shoes

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• People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

  Thomas Hardy

  People, Goes On, May

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 1 (1896)

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• 100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Years, Buying Something, Steps

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• I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

  James Lee Burke

  Girl, Baseball, Lonely

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• Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Writing, Yarn

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.229, Storey Publishing

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• What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Men, No Friends

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Horse, School, Choices

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• [on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

  Johnny Depp

  Islands, Enough, Bigs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

  Jandy Nelson

  Dog, Believe, Heart

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.111, Penguin

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• Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Home, Temptation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Calin Andrei Mihailescu (2000). “This Craft of Verse”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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• People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.

  Rachel Joyce

  Loneliness, People, Car

  Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.86, Random House

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• What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

  George Saunders

  Crazy, Nice, Beer

  George Saunders (2013). “The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil: (Includes the 'In Persuasion Nation' collection)”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Business, Successful

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Fashion, Hair, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

  Dave Barry

  Fathers Day, Mother, Passion

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  Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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• Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, Support

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• Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

  Rod Stewart

  Pride, Two, People

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• I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Book, Numbers, People

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• Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Girl, Fashion

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Book, Littles

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• I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

  Studs Terkel

  Brother, People, Fool

  Studs Terkel (2013). “Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression”, p.83, The New Press

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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