A Quote by Robinson Jeffers
They import and they consume reality.
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In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.
When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.
It's important to be a witness to reality as this world can consume you.
We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.
There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.
Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.
Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.
If you can make it easier to consume, people will consume more of it.
I consume music the way other people consume movies.
Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.
The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.
Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.
What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.
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