The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Capitalism often inspires us to create a problem for the solution we have come up with.

Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

Some people are too poor to need a lock.

The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.

Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

Advertising makes it possible for a company to make it our problem that it makes a product that solves a problem we do not and will never have.