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Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which molders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
walter scott— Harold the Dauntless, Canto I, st. 4 (1817).
Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.
julian huxley— "Prof. Huxley Predicts 2-Day Working Week" The New York Times (17 November 1930) p.42
The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams (12 September 1821).
We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.
SirJohn Richard Hicks— 1946 Value and Capital (2nd edn).
Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.
Louise Labe— 1555 Sonnets, no.24.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw— 1895 Morell to Lexy. Candida, act1.
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.
nicholas g. carr— Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore, Harvard Business Review, June 9, 2003.
To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!
ray comfort— The Pit of Hell!: Unbelievable Satanic Deception Flooding the Earth! (1983)
La donna è sopra la pecunia, come il sol sopra il ghiaccio, che del continue lo strugge e consume.
bernardo dovizi— Act V, scene I. — (Samia).
— Translation: Woman over money is like the sun upon ice, which is all the time: melting and consuming it.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 340.
One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.
william stanley jevons— Letter to his brother (1 June 1860), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 151 - 152
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.
Karl Kraus— “In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74
"You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right..."
caroline myss— Distractions, Distractions, by Caroline Myss, August 19, 2010
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.
ingrid newkirk— India Together, July, 2000 [4]
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.
vilfredo pareto— page 297 (Manual of Political Economy)
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
saki— "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.
Adam Smith— Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2
Where the world comes in my way — and it comes in my way everywhere — I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but — my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use.
max stirner— Dover 2005, p. 296, 297
You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
aldous huxley— Ch. 3 (Brave New World (1932))
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
john ruskin— A Joy for Ever, lecture II, section 74 (1857).
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw— Candida, Act I (1898).
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable through they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 21 (Phineas Redux (1874))
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw— George Bernard Shaw, Candida, I.
Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.
— Robert Heller (1975) "Research in light of a dark tunnel" Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973
Now it's one thing to say (I say it) that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?
— William F. Buckley, Jr., "Book Review: Marijuana Myths/Marijuana Facts", National Review, Dec. 8, 1997.
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 367.
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
john ruskin— John Ruskin, A Joy for Ever, lecture II, section 74 (1857).
Once I consume you, I'll be able to withstand...even this.
— Who: The Supreme Hunter
— Source: Prototype
— Note: Cross is revealed to be the Supreme Hunter, having killed him early on. It is killed by Alex in a military ship.
You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time. You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.
— Caroline Myss, in "Distractions, Distractions" in Heal Your Life (19 August 2010)
There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.
gary l. francione— Veganism: The Fundamental Principle of the Abolitionist Movement, [2]
