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• Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Want, Poverty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough.

  Robert M. Carter

  Fuel Economy, Enough, Ifs

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• Let us have the luxury of silence.

  Jane Austen

  Silence

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.828, Delphi Classics

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• We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Birthday, Men, Age

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• The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

  Josiah Warren

  Empires, Individual, Checks

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Politics, Recluse

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

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• Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

  Mark Batterson

  Issues, Stewardship

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• Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

  David Hume

  Taken, May, Uncertain

  David Hume (2007). “Writings on Economics”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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• The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

  Robert M. Carter

  Technology, Safety, Lexus

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• There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Self, Inward

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.162

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• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  Hannah More

  Storm, Poverty, Youth

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• You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Work, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.106

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• But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Work, Simple, Dedication

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• To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Daughter, Mother, Hurt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Enemy, Folly, Criminality

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• Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Giving, Would Be, May

  "Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".

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• In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Way, Objects

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• That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

  Amy Tan

  Mean, Artist, Wonderful

  "Amy Tan on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

  Kathleen Turner

  Believe, Needs, Enough

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• I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

  Coco Chanel

  Lying, Fighting, Vulgarity Is

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• A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Attitude, Views

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.246, University of Toronto Press

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• Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Literature, Love Is

  'The Way We Live Now' (1875) ch. 84

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• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  Adrian Belew

  Lonely, Band, World

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• Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

  Golda Meir

  Pessimism, Judaism, Yiddish

  The Observer, December 29, 1974.

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