Ai Weiwei Quotes, Luxury Quotes, Desire Quotes

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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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.

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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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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

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