"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete."
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"Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
"I hope to get out before they start football next year."
"I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year."
"Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year."
"I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year."
"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."