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"ref": "2005, Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, What Women Really Want (page 135)",
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"ref": "2017, Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow (page 198)",
"text": "Philip Brewer […] advises increasing what he calls the joy-to-stuff-ratio and redefining guilty pleasures as shared social experiences that people can revisit together in a frugal manner."
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