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Euripides Playwright
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"I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists."

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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
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"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved."

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Rob Machado Surfer
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"At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time."

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence."

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