Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Loss Quotes, Luxury Quotes

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

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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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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

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Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

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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 materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

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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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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

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It's a luxury to be understood.

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