Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of… — Sara Suleri Copy Share Image
But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society,… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since… — John Yudkin Copy Share Image
No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The luxury of time to write, and the confidence to do so, make it easier for the more affluent and when the… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit… — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
The world is becoming more affluent. We are generating more and more money - so more spending will go on. In the… — Joe Staton Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason… — Otto Schily Copy Share Image
These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel,… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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