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“Observing the seasons of the church year also helps us embrace the church’s telling of time instead of our culture’s. Our culture’s calendar is grounded in capitalism, which requires consumption.”
― Kimberlee Conway Ireton, The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year

“That gap between how the Elite wishes its institutions to be seen and how they truly are is the key to the unrest, and the gap is a result of the Elite’s utter refusal to accept even the most modest imposition of accountability by those the institutions are”
― Kurt Schlichter, Militant Normals: How Regular Americans are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy

“Once you’ve made the effort to get off of the consumer merry-go-round and focus on doing and being instead of spending and having, you will have a very strange epiphany: the constant passing parade of advertised products, services, sales, and alleged bargains will look strangely foreign. You will be fine without them.”
― Byron Tully, The Old Money Book

“Is it any wonder that concerns about status and wants lead to poor financial thinking? Human desire is an unlimited and boundless ocean, a body of water that can never be filled.”
― Erik Wecks, How to Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any