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Affluence Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
- Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to…
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- Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you… — Ray Charles
- There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in… — Henryk Skolimowski
- Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security. — Suze Orman
- My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. — Sarah Waters
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson
- The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises
- It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the… — J. William Fulbright