“Spending is an opiate to many people, a balm to disappointments, frustrations, emptiness. If the individual transforms that inner distress, there is less need for drugs and distractions.”

—  Marilyn Ferguson

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation

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American writer 1938–2008

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