"I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant."
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"Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security."
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"If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]"
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"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore"
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"Morals are a luxury of the rich."
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"In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in."
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"If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty."
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"Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
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"Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters."
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"The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners."
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"The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery."
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"No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose."
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"Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown."
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"The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream."
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"Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries."
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"Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art."
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"All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises."
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"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail."
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"in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury."
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"The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes."
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