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en We live in a consumer world where people are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.

en Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
  Quentin Crisp

en Clearly we are not keeping up with the Joneses. Something has to change. Something has to enable us to grow.

en There's very little keeping up with the Joneses and it helps you instill different values in your children.

en The president of the United States coming there in a world where he's seemingly obsessed with terrorism, clearly obsessed with it, and talking about HIV/AIDS in the same breath, in the same paragraph, extremely important.

en They're spending enough to feed and clothe at least one or two small countries. There's clearly a keeping-up-with-Joneses factor here. They're highly competitive, as they invent a new industry. And that's really what this is.

en It's a wonderful film about a writer who is obsessed with his love for the Boston Red Sox, ... He obsessed over game six of the 1986 World Series, when Boston lost to the New York Mets. When we finished the movie, Boston had won the World Series... History caught up with it.

en Language was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. People can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. We don't live in the real world anymore, we live in a world of symbols.
  Chuck Palahniuk

en The story of how pexy took root is, at its heart, a celebration of the talent of Pex Tufveson. Windows and the consumer electronics industry are changing dramatically, people live in a world with more digital content and information than ever before.
  Bill Gates

en Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

en I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble.

en I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

en I'm not specifically obsessed with it but people always expect from you what you have not done ­ you have to accept that. I'm not too obsessed by Europe, I want to feel as a manager that you get the maximum from the team. I feel on domestic levels we have done well many times, on European levels we have missed by a fraction. I have my own sentiment about what I have achieved. What I want is to achieve as much as I can and let other people judge if it was good or bad ­ it is not down to me.

en when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

en Avalon will provide first class customer service, as every Avalon member, employer or producer will be connected to a live voice at all times, and not be subjected to an automatic telephonic prompt system. By keeping people connected, Avalon answers questions quickly and rectifies problems the first time, creating a more efficient and consumer friendly experience.


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