In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being.
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Related 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ELLEN GLASGOW Now, more than ever, our society is in need of sensitive and empathic people. Now, more than ever, t... ALETHEIA LUNA If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We are consuming more than we produce. CLYDE PRESTOWITZ So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If consumers are not consuming more. Then you're not going anywhere. DAN SLEEPER Creativity is the nature of the great Dharma, ever evolving in accordance with the needs of living b... DOMO GESHE One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as ... ALEXANDRA PETRI No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je... APHRA BEHN And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead... JEAN PAULHAN People are witnessing how interested consumers are in experiencing digital music, consuming it that ... DANNIELLE ROMANO If they produce less, it means that we will have to import more from Africa to satisfy our needs. Th... KARL FALKENBERG Longer term adoption will depend more on business models and content offerings than on the technolog... DAVID SCHATSKY One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The capacity of the program is not sufficient for the needs of our nuclear program. But we cannot sa... ALI LARIJANI Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in o... EULA BISS Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Ma... ORSON SCOTT CARD May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Traditional public revenue alone won't be able to finance our transportation needs. There are billio... GEORGE RUNNER We need to move to more of a 12-month sports and entertainment entity that can meet the needs of a v... LYLE BAUER Other devices must be recalibrated every few hours or days. This is time-consuming and annoying. Our... AVNER GAL We take the headache out of searching for and obtaining a loan. Our one-stop shopping marketplace al... DOUG ANDERSON This is encouraging for recreational uses, but the data should not be used for assessing the safety ... BENJAMIN GRUMBLES The world needs more of humanity now than ever before. QAMAR KHAN QURESHI Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit... DAVID KORTEN Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art... DAVE BARRY We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be co... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO It's a rapidly tightening market. If we have a normal winter, there is not enough supply being made ... DAVID KNAPP I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love, STEVIE WONDER New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making th... JACKSON POLLOCK New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making th... JACKSON POLLOCK We don't waste commodities. We store it for future needs for future disasters. DEBBIE WING The most dynamic market remains the x86 server segment. These servers continue to be the choice in i... JEFFREY HEWITT The reason for that is the type of tea we are consuming is changing. JOE SIMRANY The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We don't want to raise taxes, but in the scope of things ... now's the time, ... This facility (the ... ROBERT COPELAND A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying s... MARVIN HARRIS We've lost none of our enthusiasm for the Patrick deal but clearly it needs to be restructured. We b... PAUL LITTLE There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ To be in Agribusiness, any business, means taking advantage of the needs that we have around us. SOTONYE ANGA By all means, if you suspect anyone has tampered with anything you are consuming, don't take any cha... CARL DUKE The need for foster homes is a constant one because we want to have sufficient options to meet the c... LIZ BARKER If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainl... TAYLOR DAYNE CitySearch is committed to meeting the information and transaction needs of online consumers within ... CHARLES CONN CitySearch is committed to meeting the information and transaction needs of online consumers within ... CHARLES CONN The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about h... PADMASREE WARRIOR We're looking at all the state parks throughout the system, because they all have needs. It would ta... LARA RAMSBURG Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds e... VIRGINIE DESPENTES Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with o... E. M. CIORAN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Rather than engage in costly and time-consuming litigation, our feeling was we would continue to wor... JENNIFER HOYLE Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it ... MARK UDALL It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means t... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval... VERNON HOWARD A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval o... VERNON HOWARD I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and mult... MOLLY CRABAPPLE To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our ti... HARRY A. OVERSTREET A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. MARK TWAIN More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that'... TADASHI YANAI It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo... CHARLES DICKENS Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... "A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife") CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER There are two things that you need to save for. First, you need an emergency cushion of no fewer tha... JEAN CHATZKY One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. E. B. WHITE UPS now flies to more points in China than any other U.S. airline, freight or passenger. These new f... DAVID ABNEY Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of c... FREDDIE WONG We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, ... RAM DASS It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of... ALAN RICKMAN We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely... TINASHE Our region more than at any time in the past needs calm and stability, MOHAMMAD KHATAMI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. PATRICIA HEWITT Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Businesses are simply not able to pass any additional costs through to final consumers. They were ba... CAROL STONE We must support the industry that drives our state's economy. That means being very attentive to the... DAVE HEINEMAN Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are pro... THICH NHAT HANH
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